African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900
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African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900

  1. 546 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900

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A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate

Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. African American Life in South Carolina’s Upper Piedmont 1780–1900
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. List of Tables
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Editorial Note
  12. Prologue: Milly Dupree
  13. Introduction: A Piedmont Setting
  14. PART 1 The Setting, the Peoples, and Their Work
  15. PART 2 Interactions between Black and White
  16. PART 3 African American Subculture and Life on the Plantation
  17. PART 4 Transitions
  18. PART 5 Community Building: Organizations, Concepts, and Opportunities
  19. PART 6 Changing Conditions, for Better, for Worse
  20. List of Abbreviations
  21. Notes
  22. Selected Bibliography: An Essay
  23. Index of People
  24. Index of Subjects