Appalachians and race : the mountain South from slavery to segregation / edited by John C. Inscoe. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inscoe, John C., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Appalachian Region, Southern--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions--19th century.

Slavery--Appalachian Region, Southern--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Race relations.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions--19th century.

African Americans--History--19th century--Appalachian Region, Southern.

African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Slavery--History--19th century--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 330 p. ) ill., maps ;

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The subject of race and Appalachia was raised only sporadically ...Only with the explosion of scholarship on the region that has taken place in the century's final decades have scholars again given serious attention to the presence of African Americans in Appalachia and the implications of that presence-socially, politically, economically, and culturally-on the region and beyond. These essays represent a cross section of this recent work." -- P. 2.

Contents:

Slavery and antislavery in Appalachia / Richard B. Drake

Appalachian echoes of the African banjo / Cecelia Conway

Georgia's forgotten miners : African Americans and the Georgia gold rush of 1829 / David Williams

Slavery in the Kanawha salt industry / John E. Stealey III

Sam Williams, forgeman : the life of an industrial slave at Buffalo Forge, Virginia / Charles B. Dew

"A source of great economy"? : the railroad and slavery's expansion in southwest Virginia, 1850-1860 / Kenneth W. Noe

Put in master's pocket : cotton expansion and interstate slave trading in the mountain south / Wilma A. Dunaway

A free black slave owner in east Tennessee : the strange case of Adam Waterford / Marie Tedesco

Olmsted in Appalachia : a Connecticut Yankee encounters slavery and racism in the Southern Highlands, 1854 / John C. Inscoe

Race and the roots of Appalachian poverty : Clay County, Kentucky, 1850-1910 / Kathleen M. Blee and Dwight B. Billings

Slavery's end in east Tennessee / John Cimprich

Southern mountain Republicans and the Negro, 1865-1900 / Gordon B. McKinney

Negotiating the terms of freedom : the quest for education in an African American community in Reconstruction north Georgia / Jennifer Lund Smith

The Salem School and Orphanage : white missionaries, black school / Conrad Ostwalt and Phoebe Pollitt

"What does America need so much as Americans?" : race and northern reconciliation with southern Appalachia, 1870-1900 / Nina Silber

African American convicts in the coal mines of southern Appalachia / Ronald L. Lewis

The formation of black community in southern West Virginia coalfields / Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Racial violence, lynchings, and modernization in the mountain south / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8131-7122-9