Facing Freedom: An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow

by Daniel B Thorp and Daniel B. Thorp

Book Overview

The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War. Drawing on extensive research in private collections as well as local, state,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813943574
• ISBN13: 9780813943572
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"