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Book Review

Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750–1860. By Timothy James Lockley. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xx, 280 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8203-2228-8.)

Over the last two decades or so, a number of studies have rescued the antebellum South's non-slaveowners from historical invisibility. A central question that has in some way informed most of these inquiries is why the Old South's plain folk supported slavery and, in 1860–1861, the Confederacy. Timothy James Lockley, in Lines in the Sand, tackles this issue head-on by focusing on how non-slaveholders in the Georgia low country interacted with the region's African American population during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods. . . .

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