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Facing Freedom An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow / Daniel B. Thorp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thorp, Daniel B., author.
- Series:
- American South series.
- The American South series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Virginia--Montgomery County--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Virginia--Montgomery County--History.
- Montgomery County (Va.)--Biography.
- Montgomery County (Va.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In this book the author relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War.--Publisher's description
- Contents:
- Prologue: a new day dawns
- People and communities
- Families in freedom
- Labor, land, and making a living
- Schools for the benefit of our children
- Temples built unto the Lord
- Government and politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813940748
- 0813940745
- OCLC:
- 1076543702
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