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Claudia L. Bushman. In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 292. $42.50.

John Walker (1785–1867) of Chatham Hill and Locust Grove, on the north bank of the Mattaponi River in King and Queen County, Virginia, was hardly a typical man of his times; rather he combined the qualities of several types. Born to the Virginia gentry of the eighteenth century, he developed into a sober, industrious, plain-living Methodist farmer, turning his back on dancing, fox hunting, card playing, and similar frivolities. Engaged in trade as a young man, he turned to agriculture at the advanced age of thirty-nine and married Margaret Shepherd (1804–1886), daughter of his Methodist pastor, five years later. They had four daughters and three sons; only two sons, Watson and Melville, lived to marry and have children of their own. Both also fought for the Confederacy. . . .

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