Slavery and antislavery in Appalachia / Richard B. Drake -- Appalachian echoes of the African banjo / Cecelia Conway -- Georgia's forgotten miners: African Americans and the Georgia gold rush of 1829 / David Williams -- Slavery in the Kanawha salt industry / John E. Stealey III -- Sam Williams, forgeman: the life of an industrial slave at Buffalo Forge, Virginia / Charles B. Dew -- "A source of great economy"? The railroad and slavery's expansion in southwest Virginia, 1850-1860 / Kenneth W. Noe -- Put in master's pocket: cotton expansion and interstate slave trading in the mountain south / Wilma A. Dunaway -- A free black slave owner in east Tennessee: the strange case of Adam Waterford / Marie Tedesco -- Olmsted in Appalachia: a Connecticut Yankee encounters slavery and racism in the Southern Highlands, 1854 / John C. Inscoe -- Race and the roots of Appalachian poverty: Clay County, Kentucky, 1850-1910 / Kathleen M. Blee and Dwight B. Billings -- Slavery's end in east Tennessee / John Cimprich -- Southern mountain Republicans and the Negro, 1865-1900 / Gordon B. McKinney -- Negotiating the terms of freedom: the quest for education in an African American community in Reconstruction north Georgia / Jennifer Lund Smith -- The Salem School and Orphanage: white missionaries, black school / Conrad Ostwalt and Phoebe Pollitt -- "What does America need so much as Americans?": race and northern reconciliation with southern Appalachia, 1870-1900 / Nina Silber -- African American convicts in the coal mines of southern Appalachia / Ronald L. Lewis -- The formation of black community in southern West Virginia coalfields / Joe William Trotter, Jr. -- Racial violence, lynchings, and modernization in the mountain south / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.