Excerpt from Below the Potomac The old South has receded into a romantic mist that obscures reality for both southerners and outlanders alike. Everyone looks back to the good old days, with their traditions of hospitality, chivalry, and good breeding, when the large plantation houses teemed with a pretty activity - hunting, drinking, children and servants all over the place, the skirts of visiting relatives brushing ceaselessly up, and down the stairs. Kinship was a bond that entitled seventh cousins to room and board for a lifetime. Why not? Labor was plentiful, food was abundant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.