African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
Joe William Trotter Jr, "African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry"
English | ISBN: 1952271185 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1952271185 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
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 War and dramatically expanded during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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