Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community

by John M Coggeshall

Book Overview

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liberia in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small African American community still living on land obtained immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the story of five generations of the Owens family and their friends and neighbors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469640856
• ISBN13: 9781469640853
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"