Carolina Piedmont Country

by John M. Coggeshall

Book Overview

For over a century, cotton production influenced the folklife of the Carolina Piedmont. In the wake of the reconstruction in the 1870s the Piedmont sprouted a number of industrial towns whose cotton mills utilized the area's inexpensive power, labor, and materials.

Simultaneously a system of tenant farming evolved, creating a class of improvised black and white farmers. Their interaction with small-town elites helped to create a distinctive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878057676
• ISBN13: 9780878057672
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"