The Road to Black Ned's Forge A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier |
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Author:
| McCleskey, Turk |
Series title: | Early American Histories Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3583-6 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2014 |
Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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Contradicting the popular view of settlers in southern Virginia as poor, violent, and transient, this book--with its pathbreaking research and gripping narrative--radically rewrites the history of the colonial backcountry, revealing it to be made up largely of close-knit, rigorously governed communities.
Contradicting the popular view of settlers in southern Virginia as poor, violent, and transient, this book--with its pathbreaking research and gripping narrative--radically rewrites the history of the colonial backcountry, revealing it to be made up largely of close-knit, rigorously governed communities.