In the latest installment of its "Disunion" op-ed series about the Civil War, the New York Times describes how racial lines were a bit more fluid in the antebellum South.
But, the thread of the end of slavery, and its rigid borders, changed everything.
Read the column for a how a Louisiana white family with black ancestors in its bloodline reacted.
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