I was hesitant at first. I mean, we’re talking Civil War homes IN the South. What perspective were they going to have? What kinds of stories were they going to tell? I really didn’t know what ...

Like the destroyed abbeys of 17th-century England in the English civil war, which are still all over the English landscape... the South now was a landscape with ruins -- ruined plantations ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

With no food but what they could carry, no clothes except those they wore, and no home but the ... How the Civil War Turned the World Upside-Down for Southern Children" (Ivan R.