Title Appalachians and race : the mountain South from slavery to segregation / edited by John C. Inscoe

Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 330 pages) : illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 19th century Slavery -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. African Americans African Americans -- Social conditions Race relations Slavery Social conditions Sklaverei Ethnische Beziehungen Gender & Ethnic Studies. Social Sciences. Ethnic & Race Studies. African Americans -- History -- 19th century. Slavery -- United States -- Condition of slaves. Slavery -- United States -- Social conditions. SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions -- 19th century Subject Southern Appalachian Region Appalachen-Gebiet Schwärze United States, Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865. United States, Southern States -- Slavery and bondage. United States, Southern States -- Social life and customs. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Inscoe, John C., 1951- LC no. 00028311 ISBN 0813171229 9780813171227

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