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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Slavery and antislavery in Appalachia | 16 |
| 2 | Appalachian echoes of the African banjo | 27 |
| 3 | Georgia's forgotten miners : African Americans and the Georgia gold rush of 1829 | 40 |
| 4 | Slavery in the Kanawha salt industry | 50 |
| 5 | Sam Williams, forgeman : the life of an industrial slave at Buffalo Forge, Virginia | 74 |
| 6 | "A source of great economy"? : the railroad and slavery's expansion in Southwest Virginia, 1850-1860 | 101 |
| 7 | Put in master's pocket : cotton expansion and interstate slave trading in the mountain south | 116 |
| 8 | A free black slave owner in East Tennessee : the strange case of Adam Waterford | 133 |
| 9 | Olmsted in Appalachia : a Connecticut Yankee encounters slavery and racism in the Southern Highlands, 1854 | 154 |
| 10 | Race and the roots of Appalachian poverty : Clay County, Kentucky, 1850-1910 | 165 |
| 11 | Slavery's end in East Tennessee | 189 |
| 12 | Southern mountain republicans and the Negro, 1865-1900 | 199 |
| 13 | Negotiating the terms of freedom : the quest for education in an African American community in Reconstruction North Georgia | 220 |
| 14 | The Salem school and orphanage : white missionaries, black school | 235 |
| 15 | "What does America need so much as Americans?" : race and northern reconciliation with Southern Appalachia, 1870-1900 | 245 |
| 16 | African American convicts in the coal mines of Southern Appalachia | 259 |
| 17 | The formation of black community in Southern West Virginia coalfields | 284 |
| 18 | Racial violence, lynchings, and modernization in the mountain south | 302 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Adam Podolski
reviewed Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation on August 09, 2017
Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation
This book had a major impact on me when I first read it -- you might say I was traumatized. Interestingly, it was the only book on the Civil Rights movement in our Middle School library on the edge of one of the nation's great Black cities. I never forgot it, and years later got my own copy. It's a terrifying glimpse into a now mostly-vanished world, and good riddance. I was an infant when these events transpired, and a snaggle-toothed old hag when one of the ringleaders of the atrocity was brought to justice, in his eighties. I wonder what the three victims of this crime would say if I could ask them what they think of president Obama's election...
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Add Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last two decades have their contributions been recognized by white culture. Appalachians and Race brin, Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last two decades have their contributions been recognized by white culture. Appalachians and Race brin, Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation to your collection on WonderClub |
