Winner of a 2019 NC Society of Historians award. Judges' collective comments: "This is an incredible book It is well-researched and indexed, with a thorough bibliography. Court cases are included in an appendix as they relate to the families discussed in the book. It is a significant, lovely book and well done " In The Web opens in 1850, in the small town of Morganton, North Carolina, with the marriage of Mourning Crisp, a free woman of color, to...
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