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.
Drawing on extensive research in private collections as well as local, state, and federal records, Thorp narrates in int.
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.
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