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Hi :)

I hope I have posted this in the right place.

I have read quite a few books on slavery and the deep south, but I realised just about every one of them is from the point of view/ narrative of the slaves or decendants of slaves.
So I was wondering if anyone could recommend books, whether fiction or nonfiction, on the subject of the deep south/ slavery where the narrative/ point of view is of the slave-owners and/ or the white people/ families?

Thank you :)

This is the right place for this. I'll need to do some thinking, but the one that springs to mind right off the bat is "Slaves in the Family", by Edward Ball. Non-fiction.

I suggest that Gone with the Wind might fit in this category. It's not specifically about slavery but it certainly doesn't leave it out.

Property by Valerie Martin

Wash by Margaret Wrinkle

Soul Catcher by Michael C. White

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim

Nonfiction:
They Were Her Property: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Dawson's Fall by Roxana Robinson

Thank you all!

I have just added a few to my own list. I'm waiting on the library for Dawson's Fall. I can't believe I didn't think of Invention of Wings, that was a great book.

I'd like to recommend
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons

Excerpt from my VERY brief review
Gibbons grabs you at the first sentence: "I did not mean to kill the nigger!" Here she tells the tale of the daughter of a plantation owner from the Civil war to early 20th century.

And for a slightly different take - a Black slave owner

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Thank you!

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

Book Concierge wrote: "I'd like to recommend
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons

Excerpt from my VERY brief review
Gi..."

A most powerful excellent novel.

The Indigo Girl

Thank you :)