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 is written by W. J. Megginson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1570036268 (ISBN 10) and 9781570036262 (ISBN 13).

"Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, W. J. Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. He portrays relationships - variously cordial, patronizing, and harsh - between African Americans and whites; the lives of free people of color; the primal place of sharecropping in the post-Civil War world; and the push for education and ownership of property as the only means of overcoming economic dependency."--BOOK JACKET.