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Race, war, and remembrance in the Appalachian South / John C. Inscoe.

Author/creator Inscoe, John C., 1951-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoLexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2008.
Descriptionxv, 395 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Race and racism in nineteenth-century Appalachia : myths, realities, and ambiguities -- Between bondage and freedom : confronting the variables of Appalachian slavery and slaveholding -- Olmsted in Appalachia : a Connecticut Yankee encounters slavery in the southern highlands, 1854 -- Mountain masters as Confederate opportunists : the slave trade in western North Carolina, 1861-1865 -- The secession crisis and regional self-image : the contrasting cases of western North Carolina and east Tennessee -- Highland households divided : familial deceptions, diversions, and divisions in southern Appalachia's inner civil war / with Gordon B. McKinney -- Coping in Confederate Appalachia : portrait of a mountain woman and her community at war -- "Moving through deserter country" : fugitive accounts of southern Appalachia's inner civil war -- "Talking heroines" : elite mountain women as chroniclers of Stoneman's Raid, April 1865 -- The racial "innocence" of Appalachia : William Faulkner and the mountain South -- A fugitive slave in frontier Appalachia : the journey of August King on film -- "A northern wedge thrust into the heart of the Confederacy" : explaining Civil War loyalties in the age of Appalachian discovery, 1900-1921 -- Unionists in the attic : the Shelton Laurel Massacre dramatized -- Appalachian Odysseus : love, war, and best-sellerdom in the Blue Ridge -- Guerrilla war and remembrance : reconstructing a father's murder and a community's civil war -- Race and remembrance in West Virginia : John Henry for a postmodernist age -- In defense of Appalachia on film : Hollywood, history, and the highland South.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008013170
ISBN9780813124995 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813124999 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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