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Their relationship offers opportunities and hope if they can keep their secrets from Frederick, a man determined to control the lives of his white children as well as his slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eDark Side of Civil\u003c\/i\u003e is a realistic, intimate experience and a culmination of the story begun in \u003ci\u003eA Single Drop of Ink. \u003c\/i\u003eReaders will once again enter the lives of Frederick, his children Robart, Fredie, Mattie, Ella, and Maxie, but \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Side of Civil \u003c\/i\u003egoes deep into the lives of the household slaves. Minda's family manages periods of happiness, hope, and normalcy in an era that denied them humanity. 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Abigail, Frederick's second wife and the daughter of a wealthy Virginia plantation owner, feels she acquired her husband much as she did her clothes, as hand-me-downs from her sister. Jessie Davis, the Barret's cook and a free woman of color, has secrets of her own and an unnatural way of knowing things. Mammy, Dovie, Lewis, and Minda fight to stay connected as a family despite being household slaves. Together they create a rich cast bound by love, secrecy, and servitude. Neither Abigail's goodness nor Jessie's talents can keep the household, black and white, from spiraling down a course of destruction set in motion by Frederick who is determined to forge a new life of power and prestige, no matter what the cost. Books like Gone with the Wind did much to romanticize the American antebellum South, but real life for women and blacks in the pre-Civil War low country was far from glamorous. 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