Race, war, and remembrance in the Appalachian South
By: by John C. Inscoe.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780813124995
Subjects: Slavery -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century; Mountain life -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century; Community life -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century; Guerrilla warfare -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- History -- 19th century; Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; Appalachian Region, Southern -- History, Military -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Underground movements; Appalachian Region, Southern -- In literature; Appalachian Region, Southern -- In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race and racism in nineteenth-century Appalachia : myths, realities, and ambiguities; title: Between bondage and freedom : confronting the variables of Appalachian slavery and slaveholding; title: Olmsted in Appalachia : a Connecticut Yankee encounters slavery in the southern highlands, l854; title: Mountain masters as Confederate opportunists : the slave trade in western North Carolina, 1861-1865; title: The secession crisis and regional self-image : the contrasting cases of western North Carolina and east Tennessee; title: Highland households divided : familial deceptions, diversions, and divisions in southern Appalachia's inner civil war / with Gordon B. McKinney; title: Coping in Confederate Appalachia : portrait of a mountain woman and her community at war; title: "Moving through deserter country" : fugitive accounts of southern Appalachia's inner civil war; title: Talking heroines : elite mountain women as chroniclers of Stoneman's Raid, April 1865; title: The racial "innocence" of Appalachia : William Faulkner and the mountain South; title: A fugitive slave in frontier Appalachia : the journey of August King on film; title: "A northern wedge thrust into the heart of the Confederacy" : explaining Civil War loyalties in the age of Appalachian discovery, 1900-1921; title: Unionists in the attic : the Shelton Laurel Massacre dramatized; title: Appalachian Odysseus : love, war, and bestsellerdom in the Blue Ridge; title: Guerrilla war and remembrance : reconstructing a father's murder and a community's civil war; title: Race and remembrance in West Virginia : John Henry for a postmodernist age; title: In defense of Appalachia on film : Hollywood, history, and the highland South.