The road to poverty: the making of wealth and hardship in Appalachia
"Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee examine the making of wealth and inequality in persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay Country, an especially poor section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. Though this area has been the target of repeated antipoverty and...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Dwight Billings and Kathleen Blee examine the making of wealth and inequality in persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay Country, an especially poor section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. Though this area has been the target of repeated antipoverty and economic development programs, few of these have had a lasting impact. The authors uncover the systemic problems and patterns of low income by tracing the economic, sociocultural, and political development of Clay County from early agricultural and industrial development in the nineteenth century to the advent of the timber and coal industry in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 434 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
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List of Illustrations page viii
List of Tables ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
I. Public Policy and Historical Sociology i
1. Introduction 3
II. Antebellum Capitalist Markets 25
2. Frontier Kentucky in the Capitalist World System 27
3. Industry, Commerce, and Slaveholding 51
III. Antebellum State Coercion 103
4. State Making and the Origins of Elite Conflict 105
Photo Essay 137
IV. Cultural Strategies 155
5. The Patriarchal Moral Economy of Agriculture 157
6. Racial Dynamics and the Creation of Poverty 208
V. Postbellum Capitalist Markets and the Local State 241
7. From Marginality to Integration 243
8. Feud Violence
with Pam Goldman, Sharon Hardesty, and Lee Hardesty 281
9. Epilogue 316
Appendix 1. Data and Methodology 339
Appendix 2. Genealogies 345
Notes ¦ 347
Index 427
vii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Fig. i.i Nonmetro counties with persistent high poverty,
1960—90. 5
Fig. 1.2 ARC designated Appalachian subregions. 6
Fig. 1.3 Kentucky counties and Appalachian Kentucky. 7
Fig. 2.1 Wilderness Road and the Kentucky River
Country. 31
Fig. 3.1 Clay County s antebellum salt wells. 62
Fig. 3.2 Civil suits by bearers of promissory notes,
1830 49. 90
Fig. 3.3 Civil suits by bearers of promissory notes,
1810 1900. 91
Fig. 3.4 Apprenticeship and indenture. 92
Fig. 4.1 Distribution of cases by type, 1810—1900. 113
Fig. 5.1 Trends in farm productivity. 193
Photo Essay (PE FIGS. 1 23) after page 136
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TABLES
2. i Total Valuation of Property in Kentucky River
Counties, 1839 49
3.1 Salt Manufacturing in Clay County, 1820—80 66
3.2 Clay County: Census of Manufacturing, 1850 68
5.1 Farm Size and Values in Clay County, i860 166
5.2 Farm Production in Clay County, i860 167
5.3 Farm Laborers Relationships to Beech Creek Heads
of Household (Excluding Sons and Daughters),
1900 175
5.4 Case Docket Comparison: Johnson Family, Feudists,
and Total Clay County 177
5.5 Average Sample Farm Characteristics for Northern
U.S. Farms with Three or More Improved Acres,
i860 180
5.6 Beech Creek Farm Values, 1850—80 183
5.7 Beech Creek Livestock Inventories, 1850—80 185
5.8 Output of Principal Crops and Products in Beech
Creek, 1850 80 186
5.9 Corn Production and Livestock in Beech Creek,
i860 and 1892 188
5.10 Change in Beech Creek Household Size, 1850—
1942 189
5.11 Surplus Agricultural Production in Clay County,
i860 191
5.12 Surplus Production in Beech Creek, 1850—80 192
5.13 Beech Creek Farms Not Producing Agricultural
Surpluses 194
5.14 Household Types in Beech Creek, 1850—1942 201
5.15 Household Type by Land Ownership of Household
Heads in Beech Creek, 1850 1910 202
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List of Tables
5.16 Mean Age of Household Heads by Household
Composition in Beech Creek, 1850—1910 203
6.1 Number of Free African Americans in Clay County
and Number of Whites in Beech Creek, by Gender
and Census Year, 1850—1910. 209
6.2 Persistence Rates of African Americans and Whites:
All Household Heads and Landowning Household
Heads, Clay County, 1850—1910. 217
6.3 Characteristics of Landowners, by Race, Clay
County, 1850—70. 220
6.4 Farm Equipment and Livestock Holdings of Tenant
Farmers, by Race, Clay County, 1850—70. 224
6.5 Literacy, by Gender and Race, Clay County, 1850—
1910. 226
6.6 Persons Unrelated to Household Head, by Race,
Clay County, 1850—1910. 232
6.7 Mean Age of Persons Unrelated to Household
Head, Clay County, 1850—1910. 233
6.8 Racial Differences in Landholding and Family
Relationships among the Elderly, Clay County,
1850—1910. 235
6.9 Relationship to Head of Household for Elderly
Women, by Race, Clay County, 1850—1910. 236
6.10 Living Arrangements of African American and
White Children, Clay County, 1850—1910. 237
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