A very good and important book. A history of how women (particularly southern women) owned and profited from slavery and how that ownership led to their ultimate involvement in white supremacy movements and Jim Crow laws. This book is so necessary, as white women often paint themselves as helpless witnesses to anti-blackness and slavery. As the book makes the reader understand, no one was forcing these women's hands. They knew what they were doing and knew how to profit from it. This book is something all white women should read.