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2	''North and South'' is shorthand for a trilogy of books written by John Jakes: ''North and South'', set during the antebellum period of American history, ''Love and War'', which takes place during the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Civil War]], and ''Heaven and Hell'', which covers Reconstruction and the period of [[TheWildWest western expansion]] that followed.
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4	The focal point of the saga is a budding [[HeterosexualLifePartners bromance]] between Orry Main of South Carolina and George Hazard of Pennsylvania. The two become best friends while attending [[MilitaryAcademy West Point]], then fight side-by-side in the UsefulNotes/MexicanAmericanWar, but later find themselves and their families on opposite sides of the war. The slave-owning Mains are [[DeepSouth rural gentleman planters]] while the big-city Hazards are heavy in industry, their differences reflecting the social divisions that eventually led to the Civil War. Basically, it's [[{{Soaperizing}} a soap]] -- but with a budget.
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6	The books were adapted into three TV MiniSeries starring Creator/PatrickSwayze and Creator/JamesRead:
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8	* ''North and South'' (1985)
9	* ''North and South: Book II'' (1986)
10	* ''Heaven and Hell: North and South Book III'' (1994)
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12	The three series, all of which aired on Creator/{{ABC}}, clocked in at at combined [[TheEpic 1212 minutes]]. In addition to being a [[StarMakingRole breakout role]] for Swayze, a number of then-unknown actors (Creator/ForestWhitaker and Creator/JonathanFrakes, to name two) also saw their careers get a boost.
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14	Not to be confused with the Elizabeth Gaskell novel and miniseries [[Literature/NorthAndSouth of the same name]].
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17	!!This work provides examples of:
18	* EightiesHair: Averted for the most part, though Ashton's perm occasionally strains credibility.
19	** Brett is pretty bad however, her hairspray and gel caked hair and bright pink lipstick frequently make her look like "Antebellum Barbie", like at Ashton's wedding.
20	* AgeCut: Used twice with young Brett and Ashton Main. Orry stays the same throughout.
21	* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Exaggerated with Bent, who in the book is described as obese and just plain disgusting. Justified, since in the adaptation he's merged with Lamar Powell, Ashton's handsome lover.
22	** Virgilia.
23	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The ''Heaven & Hell'' TV Adaptation follows storylines from the Novel predecessors that were omitted and changed by the TV adaptations:
24	** Cooper Main.
25	** Madeline's African Ancestry becoming public knowledge, even though the Book II TV version had kept that a secret by Ashton and Elkanah Bent, with no suggestion that it was ever made public like in the Novel.
26	** Charles and Elkanah Bent having a past association.
27	** Stanley and Isabel Hazard being free and respected, despite the Book II TV version having them convicted.
28	* TheAlcatraz: Infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Prison Libby Prison]].
29	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Ashton wraps her legs around every scoundrel in sight, but doesn't give her husbands the time of day. She suggests to one of her beaux, Forbes La Motte, that James Huntoon's essential decency is a turnoff.
30	** Inverted with Mr. Fenway, who ''appears'' to be a milquetoast, dull man.... but is hiding a Machiavellian mind (and TranquilFury) underneath.
31	* AlternateHistory: Book Two brushes up against an alternate history, with Bent plotting [[KlingonPromotion the assassination of Jefferson Davis]].
32	* AnArmAndALeg: In the books, Orry's arm is amputated following a skirmish. Fangirls don't go for [[WalkingShirtlessScene that sort of thing]], so Orry instead gains a limp in the miniseries.
33	** John Jakes fought this for a while, but was ultimately convinced that Orry losing an arm would constantly take viewers out of the story, as they'd spend every scene trying to spot how Patrick Swayze was hiding his arm.
34	* AndYourLittleDogToo
35	* ArrangedMarriage: At the start of the ''North and South'', Madeline is paired off with Justin La Motte, a wealthy plantation owner who is significantly older.
36	* ArtisticTitle: A montage of ink drawings depicting the main characters. The sequence is different for each miniseries.
37	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: George and Orry both attain high-level positions in the Union and Confederate Army, respectively. George conveniently ends up under UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant's command, while Orry answers to no less than Jefferson Davis himself.
38	* BackToBackBadasses: Orry and George in their first scene together.
39	* BadassFamily: The boys of the Main clan.
40	* BastardBastard: Bent was fobbed off onto an abusive foster home after his real father, a U.S. Senator, decided to cover up his own marital infidelities. The Bents mistreated him a good deal, and Sen. Edwards kept a wide berth. He only agrees to cut a check when Elkanah appears in his office as an adult -- under the condition that he never turn up again.
41	* BeardOfSorrow: Charles Main [[spoiler: after his lover, Augusta, dies in childbirth]].
42	* BeardOfEvil: Cooper Main. [[spoiler: Bent]] grows one in the third miniseries.
43	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Madeline always looks amazing, even when sleep-deprived, beaten, and drugged up her eyeballs on laudanum. ''Heaven & Hell'' elevates her to a "Hot Mess" as she works to rebuild Mont Royal.
44	* BeenThereShapedHistory: Orry and George manage to meet every major figure in the Civil War and the abolitionist movement. In a minor example, Ashton marries the founder of Fenway Pianos.
45	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Orry Main has bad luck with trains. The first time he arrives at a Yankee train station, he is harassed for his southern accent, leading into a brawl. The second time, Virgilia's mob stops the train and tries to lynch him. Why can't a redneck gentlemen travel by rail unmolested? The third time, Orry finally has enough, whips out his cutlass and goes to town on some muggers.
46	* BigBad: Elkanah Bent.
47	* BigNo: Cooper Main, who spends the entirety of his time on-screen being a bigoted asshole, [[spoiler:finally turns the corner and refuses to murder Madeline and George in cold blood, turning his gun on Gettys La Motte and bellowing his defiance.]]
48	* BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama: Madeline is forced to give up marrying into the Main family, knowing that her 'Negress' blood would disgrace them.
49	* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Virgilia is against slavery. Sensible. Believing that everyone from the southern USA is AlwaysChaoticEvil? Not so sensible. And it keeps going downhill from there, with her ruining her own life and arguably becoming more of a liability to her cause rather than an asset.
50	* BreakTheCutie: Madeline Fabray.
51	* BreakTheHaughty: Ashton collapses in the dirt when she sees the scorched remains of Mont Royal, which she worked for years to buy back. Her last scene suggests a sort of redemption for the character.
52	* BullyHunter & SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: This would be Orry and George's relationship with their old CO, Elkanah Bent.
53	-->'''Bent:''' What do you want, Hazard? Your manner is offensive. And what's more, you're out of uniform.
54	-->'''George''': I'm glad you notice. Or else I couldn't [[TalkToTheFist give you this]].
55	* CainAndAbel: Seems everybody has an evil sibling around someplace.
56	* TheCameo: With a cast this humongous, there were bound to be a few.
57	** Creator/GeneKelly pops up in a blink-and-you'll-miss it role as Elkanah Bent's biological father.
58	** Creator/ElizabethTaylor plays a brothel madam in New Orleans.
59	** Wayne Newton is the warden of a Confederate prison camp.
60	** Music/JohnnyCash as John Brown ("We most certainly are at war!").
61	** Creator/RobertEnglund as a slimy Confederate deserter.
62	* ChainedToARock: Suspecting his wife of infidelities, Justin locks Madeline in a room and keeps her heavily sedated.
63	* CompositeCharacter: Some in the adaptation, most obviously Series!Bent, who's a merge of Book!Bent and Lamar Powell, Ashton's lover. Arguably, Series!Bent gets more from [[MagnificentBastard Powell]] than from his [[DirtyCoward book couterpart]].
64	* CoolOldGuy & NatureHero: Adolphus the trapper. Not to be confused with [[Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory Patches O'Houlihan]].
65	* TheCorrupter: The Ku Klux Klan recruiter serves as this to Cooper.
66	* CrankyLandlord: Cooper Main, who [[RememberTheNewGuy we have not seen prior]] to [[spoiler:Orry]]'s death, rides in to pay his condolences and cheerfully reminds his widow that if she misses one payment, she's out on her ear. The remainder of Book Three consists of Cooper sabotaging her business, then pulling his hair out when she keeps making the rent.
67	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Mr. Fenway. It's unclear whether "Fen" was shrewdly playing Ashton all along, or if her nonstop adultery drove him to those depths.
68	* DamselInDistress: Madeline, again.
69	* DarkSecret: Ashton's discovery (through Bent) that [[spoiler: Madeline]]'s late mother was not only black, but a high-class prostitute to boot. Whistle where the quarters are.
70	* DastardlyWhiplash: The La Mottes are an entire family of Whiplashes. Elkanah Bent and Ashton Main are the main contenders, though.
71	* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Orry]]'s infant son.
72	* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Bent]], in the books. Apparently, he didn't care as long as the person was willing. Crosses over into AbhorrentAdmirer territory with Charles Main.
73	* DirtyCoward: Bent again; emphasized many, many times in the books.
74	* DomesticAbuse: Madeline's unpleasant marriage to Justin.
75	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Orry]] is killed off at the beginning of ''Heaven and Hell''. Through creative use of [[StockFootage Archive Footage]], [[spoiler:Swayze]] walks through a doorway to be replaced by a stand-in, who (silently) bites the dust when Bent stabs him from behind.
76	* DuelToTheDeath: Orry schools Charles in the finer arts of dueling prior to facing off against a aristocrat.
77	** Another time, some of the Southern villains maneuver one of the Northern characters into a pistol duel with a sabotaged gun so they can murder him legally. Fortunately, the more sympathetic southerners learn what is going on and charge in to stop it.
78	* EqualOpportunityEvil: In the book, Cuffey's leads a band of marauders pillaging the countryside in the last days of the war. His band includes both escaped slaves and Confederate Army deserters; even former overseer Salem Jones joins them, to get even with the owners of the plantation he had been fired from.
79	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the miniseries, young Ashton is first seen breaking a bird's egg rather than letting her sister return it to the nest.
80	** Early on, it's evident that Cadet Bent isn't playing with a full deck. During a {{Flynning}} match, he seems to get aroused when he slices a fellow cadet's neck.
81	* EvenEvilHasStandards: In Book III, Ashton may be willing to [[spoiler:try to drive her brother and Madeline into destitution and retake Mont Royal through blackmail and bad business deals]] as part of her renewed revenge plot with Bent, but [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes she is horrified]] when Bent [[spoiler:deviates from the plan and murders Orry]].
82	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: John Jakes heroes prefer to take the high road. John Jakes ''villains''.... don't.
83	** When Cooper shows up to gloat, Madeline politely says she's still not leaving Mont Royal, and wishes him well.
84	-->'''Cooper:''' Why would you wish me that?
85	-->'''Madeline:''' ''(exasperated sigh)'' Because I bear you no malice, Cooper.
86	-->'''Cooper:''' '''[[YouFool You're a fool!]]'''
87	* EvilIsHammy: ''Ye gods'', Elkanah Bent. If you want a maniac done right, hire someone from Broadway.
88	** Wayne Newton as the overseer of Libby Prison is quite a sight to behold. He hisses, his eyes bug out, he clacks his teeth maniacally. It's hard not to laugh at a sadist when he's on the brink of singing "Danke Schön" at any moment.
89	* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Bent and Ashton. A union between two people who so perfectly embody the notion of evil was inevitable.
90	* EvilIsPetty: Bent ''never'' forgets. When ordered to quit leaning on George and Orry by his superior, Bent vents his frustration by knocking a cadet down a gulley.
91	* EvilVirtues: Ashton's resourcefulness. She manages to go from RichesToRags and back again, equipped with nothing but her sharp brain and industry (and a little thievery, murder, and willingness to jump in the sack with anything that has a pulse if it furthers her goals doesn't hurt, either). Faint praise, but then most of the antagonists are so blackhearted that they don't even ''have'' virtues.
92	* {{Expy}}: Raph is a pretty clear riff on [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Rhett Butler]].
93	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: George's weathered face is lined with irony as he utters the line, "''We saved his life.''"
94	** Madeline unwittingly makes an enemy by helping Ashton during her abortion. One of the Main family's slaves warns that Ashton won't allow Madelene to continue on in the family while knowing her shameful secret.
95	** Virgilia, fresh from Harper's Ferry, shows up bedraggled at her family home. Despite the evil in-laws voting to get rid of her, Constance doesn't have the heart to turn Virgilia away. It turns out [[JerkassHasAPoint the bigots had a point]]; Virgilia ransacks the silver and splits.
96	* FreudianExcuse: Bent turns out to be an illegitimate son of a U.S. Senator, who shilled him off on an abusive foster family rather than have anything to do with him.
97	* ForegoneConclusion: South Carolina ''will'' secede and [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar a civil war]] ''will'' happen as a result. However, the entire first book and first part of the mini-series is an elaborate build-up to those events, using the obvious course of history as a dramatic backdrop and setup for future struggles between various characters.
98	%%* GreatEscape
99	* HandicappedBadass: Orry, post-amputation.
100	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Virgilia in the miniseries.
101	* HeelRealization: Ashton has one at the end of Book Two. She appears to have [[IgnoredEpiphany ignored it entirely]] in Book Three.
102	* HellishHorse: Bent's prized steed, '''Satan'''. A CallBack later occurs when he tells Ashton,
103	--->"{{You remind me of\|X}} [[DoubleEntendre a horse I had once.]]"
104	* HenpeckedHusband: Stanley Hazard and James Huntoon are married to an embezzler and a sociopath, respectively. Stanley gets bullied into betraying George and selling shoddy equipment to the Union forces, while Huntoon is merely a puppet for Ashton and Bent to carry out their plot.
105	** Ashton's husband, Fen, appears to be a standard-issue cuckolded husband. He shows his true colors by withholding the purse strings to Ashton's money.
106	* HerHeartWillGoOn: [[spoiler:Orry]] getting bumped off at the start of Book 3. [[spoiler:And Madeline's heart definitely does go on - with George Hazard.]]
107	* HeyYouHaymaker: Characters have a tendency to underestimate Madeline. In the closing scenes of Book Three, Ashton returns home with a newly-minted deed, announcing that Madeline's being evicted. Madeline chases after her by the arm, begging for mercy... but realizes she's wasting her breath and just decks her one.
108	%%* HistoricalFiction
109	* HollywoodOld: Orry's greying streaks of hair.
110	* HomosocialHeterosexuality: Madelyn is manipulated into an ArrangedMarriage based entirely on his friendship with her father. This scenario is gradually rolled up retroactively after the protagonist loses contact with her only to find out that she's suddenly getting married.
111	* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In ''Heaven and Hell'', [[spoiler: Ashton has been disowned by Orry]] and now irks out a living as a Santa Fe prostitute.
112	* TheHyena: Ashton Main.
113	* IHaveYourWife: In the final phase of his revenge plot, [[spoiler: Bent kidnaps Charles Main's son to raise as his own]].
114	* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Ashton spends all of Book III working and scheming to gain control of Mount Royal. It's only after [[spoiler: her plan fails that she discovers Mount Royal was destroyed in the War and, even if her plan worked, she'd have "inherited" nothing but a burned-out husk of the manor she once loved]].
115	* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim / RoaringRampageOfRevenge
116	* TheIngenue: Madeline Fabray. Brett Main starts out as this, too.
117	* InjunCountry: Charles and Adolphus in the third book.
118	* LadykillerInLove: George is a womanizer who doesn't seem like he wants to settle down, until he meets Constance.
119	* KillTheCutie: In the third book, Bent avenges himself on George by [[spoiler: murdering his wife, Constance]].
120	* LaughablyEvil: Ashton is plainly played for comedy, despite doing some despicable things.
121	* LeanAndMean: In Chapters One and Two, Ashton is a quintessential fair-skinned, voluptuous aristocrat. By the time 1994 rolled along, Terri Garber was leaner and tanned from her role on ''Series/{{Dynasty1981}}''; it worked perfectly for a weather-beaten, hungrier Ashton.
122	* ListOfTransgressions: Each time Bent appears, it's a safe bet that he'll rant about all the times George and Orry foiled his schemes.
123	* LoveAcrossBattlelines: Many, many examples. See the trope page for details.
124	* MalcolmXerox: Cuffey. "''This'' is the only thing the white man understands. Cold steel."
125	* MaritalRapeLicense: Justin.
126	* MeetCute: In their first scene together, Orry rescues Madeline from an overturned carriage.
127	* MilkingTheGiantCow: Ashton shaking a gloved fist while proclaiming, "DAMN your Union!!"
128	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: As if '''Elkanah Bent''' wasn't over the top, he later earns the moniker "[[TheButcher Butcher Bent]]" from his subordinates.
129	* TheNeidermeyer: Elkanah Bent is first introduced as this. As punishment for a perceived slight, he puts Orry though an series of torturous exercises. In fact, the only reason Bent stopped at all was the senior cadet, UsefulNotes/UlyssesSGrant, tells him to back off.
130	* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler: Bent.]]
131	* NotSoDifferentRemark:
132	** The Mains own slaves, but the Hazards' factory is a sweatshop, whose accommodations are even worse than that of the Mains' slaves. Orry is ready to remind George of this on quite a few occasions.
133	** When Cuffey runs away from the plantation and joins a Union Colored Regiment, he finds that life as a soldier wasn't so different from life as a slave.
134	--->At Hilton Head they called me "Private Cuffey." And still put a shovel in my hand.
135	* PerpetualFrowner: Cooper.
136	* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Orry and George's contrasting lifestyles & politics have caused conflict in their relationship for more than a decade. However, during a visit to George in October 1859, disagreements over Virgilia's activities and the justification of John Brown's violent anti-slavery actions causes an estrangement between the two. It is not until George visits Orry in December 1860 do they reconcile.
137	* PoliticallyCorrectHistory
138	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Virtually all of the southern villains including Bent, Justin, and Ashton. Aside from the usual bigotries, Lincoln is repeatedly referred to as "that baboon" and "that illiterate".
139	** George's evil sister-in-law won't stop harping about his "Irish slut" of a wife.
140	* PrecisionFStrike: In the books, Cooper does this when Charleston is celebrating the start of secession.
141	* PreppyName: Many, especially in the South. Ashton and Brett, Orry's sisters, are good examples.
142	* PrinciplesZealot: Virgilia.
143	* ProfessionalGambler: Raph.
144	* ProtectThisHouse: Mont Royal is more secure than the Pentagon, as Justin learns when he comes to reclaim Madeline.
145	-->'''Charles''': ''([[ShotgunsAreJustBetter aims shotgun]])'' I wouldn't do that.\
146	''(shotguns emerge from [[MoreDakka every window in the house]])''
147	** In Book Two, two disgruntled ex-employees from the Main plantation (Salem Jones and Cuffey) lead a band of scavengers to torch the house. The siege of Mont Royal ends up destroying the mansion, but the family manages to drive them off.
148	* PunBasedTitle: The people who made the DVD chapter titles had a lot of fun with Bent's name.
149	* RaceFetish: She might genuinely love Grady, but the book makes it obvious that Virgilia has a ''serious'' "thing" for black men. Entire passages are devoted to her waxing rhapsodic about "beautiful black men" and "black man's bodies".
150	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil
151	* RichBitch: Also numerous.
152	* RomancingTheWidow: In ''Heaven and Hell'', [[spoiler: George and Madeline]].
153	* RuleOfSymbolism: The major characters, northerners and southerners, all start out wearing homogenous West Point uniforms. This image was the inspiration for the book trilogy.
154	* SaveTheVillain: George and Orry rescue Elkanah Bent from drowning in an icy lake. He's [[UngratefulBastard not exactly grateful]].
155	-->'''Charles:''' You saved the wrong man, but you did the right thing.
156	* ScarsAreForever: Justin receives one from Madeline's sword slash.
157	* SecondActBreakup: In ''Love and War'', Madeline deserts Orry after [[spoiler: Ashton threatens to expose her black lineage and disgrace Orry's family]]. They finally reconcile after the war ends. Only in the miniseries, not in the novels.
158	* SecondLove: [[spoiler: George and Madeline find love again in each other after the murders of Constance and Orry in ''Heaven and Hell'']].
159	* SeeYouInHell: Ashton actually speaks to the dearly-departed ([[spoiler:but not really]]) [[spoiler:Bent]], saying she expects to join him in Hell.
160	* SilkHidingSteel: Madeline overhears Justin's plans to have Billy bumped off, but is too woozy from drugs to claw her way out of the house. Justin strikes her, but pauses a moment to tell his slaves to beat it -- giving Madeline just enough time to unsheathe a decorative sword and bury it in her husband's face.
161	* SleazyPolitician: Congressman Sam Greene.
162	** Stanley Hazard and James Huntoon (Ashton's first husband) work with plenty of those; whether they are really all that sleazy themselves is debatable.
163	* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Virgilia, Cuffey, Cooper.
164	* SmallNameBigEgo: Bent repeatedly claims to be an outstanding military tactician, and especially loves to bring up how one of his West Point instructors compared him to Napoleon. We never see any evidence though; he mostly just shoots his own men. His father, the Senator, scoffs that he's full of hot air.
165	* SparedByTheAdaptation:
166	** [[spoiler: Orry]] in the second miniseries, based on ''Love And War'' [[spoiler: (in which Orry does get killed). But the final miniseries DroppedABridgeOnHim]].
167	** Priam in the book misses a freight train he was going to escape on and is killed by a search party, but in the miniseries he makes it onto the train.
168	* SpoiledBrat: Ashton never really grew up. Eventually, she is faced with no other choice but to do so.
169	* SuaveSabre: When he's at West Point, Orry fights {{Jerkass}} upper-class cadet Bent in a sabre match, beating Bent after a dramatic fight. When George asks him where he learned to handle a sabre like that, Orry tells him that his father had him take lessons growing up because he felt that every Southern gentleman should know how to handle a sabre.
170	* TakeOverTheWorld: Bent's goal, in his own words, is to build a Southern "[[TheEmpire empire]]" and become the new Bonaparte. Somewhat subverted in that Bent doesn't even come close to succeeding.
171	* TenPacesAndTurn: A southern aristocrat "demands satisfaction" from Charles, who can barely hold a sword-- let along a dueling pistol. With Orry's help, Charles wins out in the end.
172	** Forbes, acting under Ashton's orders, deliberately goads Billy into a duel with an unloaded pistol. Nice and legal.
173	* TorchesAndPitchforks: Virgilia directs her Abolitionist mob to lynch Orry, but he slips away in time.
174	* TookALevelInBadass: Charles grew up getting into scraps, took on 3 drunken brawlers at once, beat a man (in accuracy) at a duel, attended West Point, served Texas and fought Indians, as well as chased Mexican gang lords all over the country. When a buddy of Forbes decides to pull a knife on him at Billy's duel, Charles plainly informs him he picked the wrong man for that.
175	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Pre-teen Ashton flirts with George in a rather shameless way. He's promptly creeped out.
176	* UnfriendlyFire: Bent tries to murder Charles in this manner in Texas, but misses.
177	* UriahGambit: Bent ''loves'' these, especially when he gets a chance to off a Main or a Hazard.
178	* TheVamp: Ashton.
179	** Somewhat inverted with Virgilia. This one is a sensitive case: She manipulates one of the Mains' slaves, Grady, into sleeping with her, then springs him from captivity. Grady eventually turns into a firebrand just like Virgilia (whom he marries), and is killed at Harper's Ferry. Their relationship is a complicated one, and Virigilia never stops mourning for Grady; but it really makes you wonder if she married him as part of a mere political statement.
180	* VillainExitStageLeft: Ashton's plans [[{{Pun}} go up in smoke]] when she evicts Madeline from Mont Royal, only to discover that [[spoiler: the house has long been burned down. She is then led away by her now-husband, signaling her (apparent) reformation]].
181	* WarForFunAndProfit: Bent is plotting an elaborate takeover of North America by smuggling weapons to the South. Meanwhile, he'll turn around and spend the proceeds on contraband for an even bigger profit. He's a little optimistic about his "imperial" ambitions, but Jefferson Davis indeed confirms that those guns could have turned the tide of the war.
182	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse Rudy Bodford. After his character-building scene in the Wilderness battle in Episode 4, he is never seen again.
183	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Virgilia befriends and eventually marries a freed slave named Grady.
184	* WomanScorned: After Billy Hazard leaves Ashton for her sister, Ashton conspires with a criminal to have him murdered.
185	** In the miniseries, Virgilia agrees to serve as Congressman Greene's mistress in exchange for a judicial pardon. In his final scene, Greene reveals [[spoiler: that Virgilia's name has been cleared for months; he was just stringing her along in exchange for sex. Virgilia becomes angry and shoots him dead, but this earns her a one-way trip straight to the gallows]].

Context Series / NorthAndSouthUS