This is not your dad's 1800s novel on how the scourge of slavery stained our country. A book like few others, this pre-Civil War publication is far from a whips-and-chains documentary. A Good White Woman is a book about a family raising a black child alongside a white child as equals in the bondage-rich state of Georgia. Both nineteen years of age, Michael (white) is only his half-brother Blake's (black) elder by a month. Funded by their wealthy...