The story of Plantations and Slaves in North Carolina….where witnesses speak out through actual testimony collected from Last Wills and Testaments, deeds, sales documents, photographs, sketches, newspaper accounts, Court Minutes and Pleas, and personal slave narratives.

Christy Judah has compiled a comprehensive listing of plantations and slaves who resided in the southern Carolina region.   Finally, a book provides the details of life on the plantations, both the good and the shocking.  White gloves and lace.  Rice fields and rags.  Plantations and slaves.  The rich and the poor.  White and black.  Life and death. These are the faces of Dixie that come alive in this factual account of the settlement of coastal Carolina.

The reader follows a very personal journey as southern plantation life emerges with its extensive labor demands requiring field hands, a need that was filled by enslaving Indians, whites and Africans.  The Two Faces of Dixie identifies hundreds of authentic plantations, planters, politicians, and slaves who settled coastal North and South Carolina.  It provides a picture of a by-gone age in a way that no other work has attempted.  This is the "real" story of our heritage, from slave auctions to marriage customs.  It includes a discussion of crime, punishment, living conditions, work ethics, man's inhumanity to man, and his kindness to family and slaves alike.  This book provides a view of life during the pre-Civil War era helping the reader to understand the past, and move into the future, with an appreciation for the hardships and dreams of all who bridged the time from slavery to freedom.  This saga is presented in a way that makes one both proud and ashamed.  A remarkable historical account sure to keep the reader fascinated until the final word.