African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

by Joe William Trotter Jr.

Book Overview

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.

This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum era of chattel slavery, West Virginia's Black working class gradually picked up steam during the emancipation years following the Civil...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952271185
• ISBN13: 9781952271182
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"