On a television movie about a family of Virginia plantation owners during the Civil War, one of the sons married a woman whom his family despised because she was not of their class. She was the daughter of a poor "dirt farmer," without the privileged education, carefully cultivated social graces, or the wealth of the family who lived in the big house on the plantation. She became pregnant with their first child shortly before her husband went off to war with Jeb Stuart's calvary, and reluctantly, the family took her into their home on the plantation to care for her and the baby she was carrying. As a wedding gift, they gave her a young slave woman to be her own personal body servant. This made her feel extremely uncomfortable, for she came from people who had never owned slaves and were li…