Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, (1906). Hardcover first edition - An uncommon collection of stories of plantation life in the old South, written by a Raleigh woman whose family owned eight large plantations in North Carolina and "between fifteen and sixteen hundred negroes." Written when she was past 65, these stories were originally not intended for publication, but meant to be passed down to her grandchildren because she did not want them to be "led into the misconception held by some that Southern planters and slaveholders were cruel despots and that the life of the negro slaves on the plantation was one of misery and sorrow." After these original comments, she is careful to always refer to the "servants" even when deploring their ignorance. The topics include Plantation Life, Going to the Plantation, My Own Early Home, The Hog-Feeder's Day (in which an elderly slave is almost lynched but when the truth comes out at the last minute, and he is instead offered his freedom for his loyalty, he turns it down), and War Reminiscences. Edited by Arthur Winslow. Frontispiece portrait of "Mammy" with tissue guard. 1x, 169 pp.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on some aspects of her life as a white woman, married to a black man and raising interracial children. Although written more than 20 years ago, the beginning of the preface could have come from today's news, as Reddy realizes that her son, who is playing a game of hide-and-seek, is now old enough and tall enough to be mistaken for "the urban predator of television-fueled nightmares, ready to spring from the bushes." She realizes she has waited too long to warn him - that he has to keep his hands out of his pockets when in stores, how to talk to the police when they stop him on his bicycle, etc. A very personal and deeply felt book. Bibliography, index. xvi, 193 pp. ISBN: 0-8135-2105X.