Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community

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John M. Coggeshall
University of North Carolina Press

Liberia, South Carolina chronicles the struggles of 5 generations of the Owens family through slavery, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the desegregation of the state.

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