ISBN:
9781469640877
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Series Statement:
North Carolina scholarship online
DDC:
305.896073075723
Keywords:
Clarke, Mable Owens
;
Clark family
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze
;
Sklaverei
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
African Americans History
;
Appalachians (People)
;
South Carolina
;
Appalachian Region, Southern Race relations
;
Liberia (S History
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2018
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640853.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640853.001.0001
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