Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Race 1. Race and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities 13 2. Between Bondage and Freedom: Confronting the Variables of Appalachian Slavery and Slaveholding 46 3. Olmsted in Appalachia: A Connecticut Yankee Encounters Slavery in the Southern Highlands, 1854 65 4. Mountain Masters as Confederate Opportunists: The Slave Trade in Western North Carolina, 1861–1865 80 War 5. The Secession Crisis and Regional Self-Image: The Contrasting Cases of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee 103 6. Highland Households Divided: Familial Deceptions, Diversions , and Divisions in Southern Appalachia’s Inner Civil War with Gordon B. McKinney 124 7. Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her Community at War 144 8. “Moving through Deserter Country”: Fugitive Accounts of Southern Appalachia’s Inner Civil War 175 9. “Talking Heroines”: Elite Mountain Women as Chroniclers of Stoneman’s Raid, April 1865 204 Remembrance 10. The Racial “Innocence” of Appalachia: William Faulkner and the Mountain South 227 11. A Fugitive Slave in Frontier Appalachia: The Journey of August King on Film 242 12. “A Northern Wedge Thrust into the Heart of the Confederacy”: Explaining Civil War Loyalties in the Age of Appalachian Discovery, 1900–1921 256 13. Unionists in the Attic: The Shelton Laurel Massacre Dramatized 282 14. Appalachian Odysseus: Love, War, and Best-sellerdom in the Blue Ridge 303 15. Guerrilla War and Remembrance: Reconstructing a Father’s Murder and a Community’s Civil War 322 16. Race and Remembrance in West Virginia: John Henry for a Postmodernist Age 350 17. In Defense of Appalachia on Film: Hollywood, History, and the Highland South 364 Credits 381 Index 385 x Contents ...