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A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's
UpstateEncyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African
American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900, delves
into the richness of community life in a setting where Black
residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but
remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study
of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined
Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different
existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens
counties-occupying the state's northwest corner-he finds an
independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more
than a century in the face of political and economic inequities.
Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records,
privately held research materials, and sources available only in
local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American
society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon
Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of
History at Clemson University and University Distinguished
Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a
new foreword.
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