Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 After the raid, the pikes were left behind, and became collector's items. They were eventually used in the Civil War to help free Black people and the Union Army. #2 I decided to go to West Virginia and research the history of the Confederate flag. I was afraid that because of the current political climate, I would be met with resistance if I tried to understand...

An essential journey through the American South-and the way it defines American identity-from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list of signifiers that define the South for them: Gone with the Wind, the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan, cotillions, plantations, football, Jim Crow, and, of course, slavery....