In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South
Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small
community of Liberia, in the Blue Ridge foothills. There he met
Mable Owens Clarke and her family, the remaining members of a small
African American community still living on land obtained
immediately after the Civil War. This intimate history tells the
story of five generations of the Clarke family and their friends
and neighbors, chronicling their struggles through slavery,
Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the
state. Through hours of interviews with Mable and her relatives, as
well as friends and neighbors, Coggeshall presents an ethnographic
history that allows a largely ignored community to speak and record
their own history for the first time. This story sheds new light on
the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall
documents the community's 150-year history of resistance to white
oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic
relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying
together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.
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