Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to SegregationJohn C. Inscoe 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 brings together 18 essays on the black experience in the mountain South in the nineteenth century. These essays provide a broad and diverse sampling of the best work on race relations in this region. The contributors consider a variety of topics: black migration into and out of the region, educational and religious missions directed at African Americans, the musical influences of interracial contacts, the political activism of blacks during reconstruction and beyond, the racial attitudes of white highlanders, and much more. Drawing from the particulars of southern mountain experiences, this collection brings together important studies of the dynamics of race not only within the region, but throughout the South and the nation over the course of the turbulent nineteenth century. |
Contents
Slavery and Antislavery in Appalachia | 16 |
Appalachian Echoes of the African Banjo | 27 |
Georgias Forgotten Miners African Americans and the Georgia Gold Rush of 1829 | 40 |
Slavery in the Kanawha Salt Industry | 50 |
Sam Williams Forgeman The Life of an Industrial Slave at Buffalo Forge Virginia | 74 |
A Source of Great Economy? The Railroad and Slaverys Expansion in Southwest Virgina 18501860 | 101 |
Put in Masters Pocket Cotton Expansion and Interstate Slave Trading in the Mountain South | 116 |
A Free Balck Slave Owner in East Tennessee The Strange Case of Adam Waterford | 133 |
Southerm Mountain Republicans and the Negro 18651900 | 199 |
Negotiating the Terms of Freedom The Quest for Education in an African American Community in Reconstruction North Georgia | 220 |
The Salem School and Orphanage White Missionaries Black School | 235 |
What Does America Need So Much as Americans? Race and Northern Reconciliation with Southern Appalachia 18701900 | 245 |
African American Convicts in the Coal Mines of Southern Appalachia | 259 |
The Formation of Black Community in Southern West Virginia Coalfields | 284 |
Racial Violence Lynchings and Modernization in the Mountain South | 302 |
Contributors | 317 |
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A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South Jonathan Dean Sarris Limited preview - 2006 |