Race and Family in the Colonial South edited by Winthrop D. Jordan and Sheila L. Skemp with essays by Thad W. Tate, Patricia Galloway, Daniel Blake Smith, Philip Morgan, Russell R. Menard, and Robert Middlekauff This volume of papers from the Porter M. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi in 1986 questions what was distinctively "southern" about the colonial South. Though this region was a land of diversity and had the kind of provincialism that typified other English colonies during this period, the editors find it nearly impossible to characterize the colonial South as unique. The roots of southern distinctiveness, however, were taking hold in the years before the American Revolution, as the papers here attest. In the opening essay Tate surveys recent historical scholarship on the period and targets trends for further study. Next, Galloway examines Indian-French relations in eastern Louisiana during the eighteenth century. Smith...

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