The story of the "Old South" is the story of the slave plantations, its
origins, its expansion, its pervasive influence on the region we know as
the American South. Pre-Civil War Americans regarded Southerners as a
distinct people, who possessed their own values and ways of life. During
the three decades before the Civil War, popular writers created a
stereotype, now known as the plantation legend, that described the South
as a land of aristocratic planters, beautiful southern belles, poor
white trash, faithful household slaves, and superstitious field hands. One such field hand was Sonny Boy Mosby, his one act of direct action would change the entire image of black men in the American south and perhaps the entire world.
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