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Facing freedom : an African American community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow /

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 radica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorp, Daniel B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Series:American South series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 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.