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Liberia, South Carolina : an African American Appalachian community / John M. Coggeshall

Coggeshall, John M. [Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressource : Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

North Carolina scholarship online

Previously issued in print: 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4696-4087-7 ; 978-1-46-964085-3

NK 4602 NW 2708 NW 8295

 

South Carolina  Schwarze  Sklaverei  Landwirtschaft  Ethnische Beziehungen  Geschichte 

 

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In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as well as friends and neighboyrs, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic history that allows members of a largely ignored community to speak and record their own history for the first time.