Bøger af Bess Beatty

In 1837, Edwin Holt established a small spinning mill on his family's land along the Haw River in rural Orange County. By his death in 1884, Holt's spinning mill had come to dominate the textile industry in Alamance County. Covering the Holt dynasty from its founding, this book provides a social history of southern industrial development.

While newly liberated American blacks were relatively free to participate in the nation's political life during the decade following the Civil War, with the end of Reconstruction and the withdrawal of federal protection, constitutional guarantees quickly were curtailed.