num_pages: 178
description: Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This book examines the characteristics of North Carolina’s African-American population in order to explain the social and political factors that shaped economic opportunity for this group.
language: English
title: Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
titlecomplete: Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University of Virginia Press