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Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (review)

Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (review) Book Review the antebellum South. Many mountain masters were professional men; many others were in business. But this elite was invested in land and slaves, and was tied intimately to the Old South's system secessionists. Senator Thomas L. to Inscoe, Western Carolina's principal politicians were leading Southerners and very, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. $29.95. has done it again! First it was Edward John C. Inscoe. Mountain Masters, Sla- of power and wealth. In fact, according Clingman is Inscoe's principal example defender of slavery. Another is William Inscoe' s efforts are clearly revisionist. He takes care to prove the interconnections between mountain society and the rest of the South. Unlike Carter G. of a mountain sessionist and passionate Holland Thomas of Jackson County. Well, Burke County, North Carolina, Phifer's excellent study, "Slavery in Microcosm," which appeared in the Journal of Southern History in 1962. Dr. Phifer very and slave-owning that has been Woodson, John C. Campbell, and Carl Degler, Inscoe does not see the Appala- was a local surgeon, but his skills as a historian were such that he gave us the best in-depth, county-wide study of slaavailable for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (review)

Appalachian Review , Volume 19 (4) – Jan 8, 1991
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Book Review the antebellum South. Many mountain masters were professional men; many others were in business. But this elite was invested in land and slaves, and was tied intimately to the Old South's system secessionists. Senator Thomas L. to Inscoe, Western Carolina's principal politicians were leading Southerners and very, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. $29.95. has done it again! First it was Edward John C. Inscoe. Mountain Masters, Sla- of power and wealth. In fact, according Clingman is Inscoe's principal example defender of slavery. Another is William Inscoe' s efforts are clearly revisionist. He takes care to prove the interconnections between mountain society and the rest of the South. Unlike Carter G. of a mountain sessionist and passionate Holland Thomas of Jackson County. Well, Burke County, North Carolina, Phifer's excellent study, "Slavery in Microcosm," which appeared in the Journal of Southern History in 1962. Dr. Phifer very and slave-owning that has been Woodson, John C. Campbell, and Carl Degler, Inscoe does not see the Appala- was a local surgeon, but his skills as a historian were such that he gave us the best in-depth, county-wide study of slaavailable for

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Published: Jan 8, 1991

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