African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
Trotter, Joe William![African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/378/37893772/CHSBZCOP0337893772.jpg)
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.From there, Afr...