Prisons, Confederate, 124, 127, 176–77
Prosser, Gabriel, 33
Prostitution, 151, 170n20
Quakers, 22, 46, 107, 115–16, 251
Rabun County, Ga., 59
Race riots
in Asheville, N.C., 31, 34
in Atlanta, 34, 297
in Wilmington, N.C., 297
Racial demographics of Appalachia, 1–2, 5, 14–17, 59, 67, 237
Racial violence
in Georgia, 31–32
in Kentucky, 32
Racism, in Appalachia, 25–27, 34–36, 70–74, 115, 235–36, 251–52
Railroads, 209, 267
in Appalachia, 84, 102, 104–5, 113
Raleigh, N.C., 118, 309
Ramsey, J. G. M., 116
Rankin, Emma L., 207, 210–11, 216
Rash, Ron, 284
Reconstruction, 31–32, 33–34, 197, 235–38
Reed, John Shelton, 4
Refugees, war time, 83, 178, 189, 327, 338
Regiments, North Carolina
37th, 330
39th, 148
64th, 261, 283
Reid, John, 154–55
Reid, Salena, 154
Religion, in Appalachian films, 374–75
Republican Party, in Appalachia, 33–34
Rice, John Andrew, 167
Richardson, Albert, 181–82, 185–86, 188
Richmond, Va., 33, 88, 111
Roanoke, Va., 17
Robeson, Paul, 354
Rockbridge County, Va., 22, 51–52
Rome, Ga., 146
Rosa (slave), 92–93
Ruby (Cold Mountain), 305–9, 315, 318, 371
Ruffin, Thomas, 205
Ruffner, Henry, 22
Russell Sage Foundation, 272
Rutherford County, N.C., 87, 214
Salem, N.C., 210
Salisbury, N.C., 177, 179, 209, 307, 329
Confederate prison in, 124, 209, 327
Salt, 287–88
Salt mining, 48–49, 57
Sam (slave), 52–53
Sandy Basin, Va., 134, 327–28
Sarris, Jonathan, 134, 324
Savannah, Ga., 86–87
Sayles, John, 365, 375
Schweninger, Loren, 60
Scotch-Irish, 23, 264
Scott, Anne Firor, 164
Secession, 32, 275
in East Tennessee, 103–4, 109–10, 112, 117–19
in Georgia, 30
in North Carolina, 81–82, 103–4, 107–9, 118–19
in Virginia, 29, 30, 107
Semmes, Thomas J., 84
Semple, Ellen, 15, 23
Sergeant York, 365, 372–75
Sevier County, Tenn., 296
Shaler, Nathaniel S., 16
Shanks, Henry, 29
Shapiro, Henry, 257, 258
Shelton, David, 283
Shelton, Jim, 290
Shelton, Patsy, 286–91
Shelton, Rena, 284–85, 292–95
Shelton Laurel (play), 282, 285–97
Shelton Laurel, N.C., 292–95
massacre, 133, 261, 276, 282–98, 307, 317, 328
Shenandoah (film), 311–12, 315
Shenandoah Valley, Va., 22
Shepherd, Muriel, 19, 317
Sherman’s troops, 184, 195, 209, 218
Silber, Nina, 17, 257
Silence of the Lambs, 352
Silvers, Frankie, 285
Slagle, Dan, 285, 291
Slaveholders, 47–62, 68–77
Appalachian views of, 2, 71, 73–74, 114–15
in East Tennessee, 105
murder of, 48–49, 58
in western North Carolina, 81–84, 105, 183–84, 205–6, 248, 307
Slave labor, 47, 49–52, 56–57, 83–85
competition with poor whites, 72–73, 75
Slave narratives, 60–61
Slavery
in Appalachia, 1–2, 5, 14–16, 25–26, 47–61, 67, 74–76, 333
in Appalachian films, 374
end of, in Appalachia, 93–96, 220
profitability of, 81, 89–90
as secession issue, 29–30, 105, 275
Slaves, 55–56
aiding fugitive prisoners, 183–89
execution of, 47, 48, 58, 249–50
hired out, 53, 83, 84–87, 91, 146, 158–59, 164, 183
insurrectionary activity of, 82, 95, 160
literacy of, 47
manumission of, 33, 49, 55–56, 115
runaways, 87–88, 186–87, 245–46, 249, 313
sales of, 51, 52–53, 55, 57, 83, 91–95
treatment of, in Appalachia, 33, 47, 47–62, 211
Slave trade, 30–31, 163–64
in western North Carolina, 81–96
Smith, Lillian, 26, 58–59
Smoky Mountains. See Great Smoky Mountains
Songcatcher, 365, 372–74
South Carolina, 83–84, 86, 112, 185, 233
secession of, 106
Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, 282, 284–85, 291
Southern Highlander and His Homeland, The (Campbell), 236, 269
South Mountains, N.C., 49, 215, 234–35
Spanish-American War, 275
Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 204–5, 212–15
Spirit of the Mountains, The (Miles), 265–67
Stampp, Kenneth, 65
Starnes, Richard, 295, 324
Staunton, Va., 47
Stoneman, George, 205, 209
Stoneman’s Raid, 205–6, 209–20, 336
Stout, Tom, 333–34, 340
Stringfield, W. W., 324
Stuckert, Robert, 32
Styron, William, 19
Surry County, N.C., 233
Sutherland, Elihu J., 327–28
Sut Lovingood (Harris), 233–34
Sutpen, Thomas, 230–32, 238
Swain, David L., 85, 204
Swanger, Sally, 316–17, 318
Swannanoa Valley, N.C., 50–51
Talcott, W.Va., 350–56, 360
Tall Woman, The (Dykeman), 317
Tandy, Jessica, 370–71
Tarr, Edward, 46–47, 56
Taylor, James W., 1, 6–7
Taylor, Jim, 284, 293, 300n12
Teague, Robert, 306, 308, 313, 328
Temple, Oliver, 27, 109–10, 115–16, 128–29, 135
Tennessee, 18, 20. See also East Tennessee
Tennessee River, 105
Tennessee Valley Authority, 370–71
Tennessee Wesleyan College, 41n32
Thirteen Moons (Frazier), 298–99
Thomas, William Holland, 106, 113, 306
Tobacco Road, 380n17
To Make My Bread (Lumpkin), 233–35
Toplin, Robert Brent, 366, 378
Tourism in Appalachia, 74, 267–69
Trail of the Lonesome Pine, The (Fox), 262
Travel accounts
antebellum, 175–76
late nineteenth century, 236, 256
Trim (slave), 92–93
Trotter, William R., 284
Trowbridge, J. T., 236
Tryon, N.C., 267
Tug River Valley, 29, 47
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 72
Underground Railroad, 19–20, 39n20, 128, 246, 252
Unionism, 27–28, 125–26, 150, 184, 237
in Appalachia, 1–3, 21–22, 111, 137–39, 177–82, 257–77
in Ashe County, N.C., 325
conditional, 107, 121n9
in East Tennessee, 27–28, 109–10, 126, 128–29, 236, 325–27
in Georgia, 29, 326
in Kentucky, 29, 325–36
memories of, 324–25
in North Carolina, 129–35, 150, 166
Union troops
African American, 216, 218
from Appalachia, 265
University of North Carolina, 204, 355–56
Vance, Zebulon B., 28, 81, 83, 84, 107, 165, 205, 207, 276
as slaveholder, 29
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Veterans, Confederate, 274, 305, 324
reunions, 267
Vietnam War, 291–92
Virginia, 26, 47, 67, 194
free blacks in, 33
secession vote in, 29
Tidewater, 56, 228, 238
Waller, Altina, 29, 134
Warm Springs, N.C., 112
Warren, Robert Penn, 323, 339
Washington, D.C., 109, 118
Washington College, 22
Watauga County, N.C., 131, 340
Waterston, Sam, 248, 252
Waynesville, N.C., 67, 324
Weaver, William, 51–52, 57
Wellman, Manly Wade, 284
West, Don, 23–24
Western North Carolina, 28, 31, 50–51
class divisions in, 289–90
economy of, 104, 112–13, 118, 244–45
escaped prisoners in, 179–96
gold rush in, 49
raids on, 96–97n3, 205–18, 288
secession vote in, 29
slavery in, 33, 80–96, 206, 245
Western North Carolina Railroad, 84, 104
West Virginia, 4, 17, 179, 260, 263, 264, 350–63
West Virginia University, 356–57
Wheeling, W.Va., 22, 30, 251
Whig Party, 105, 106, 111, 114, 116
Whisnant, David, 13, 366
“Whitecapping,” 32
Whitehead, Colson, 350–59
Whiteness. See Appalachia: whiteness of
White Sulphur Springs, Va., 31
Whitfield County, Ga., 31–32
Wild River, 365, 369–70, 372–73
Wilkesboro, N.C., 188
Wilkes County, N.C., 85, 90, 135, 187, 208, 212, 307
Wilkeson, Frank, 191
Williams, Brett, 356
Williams, Catherine, 132
Williams, John Alexander, 2, 272
Williams, Leon, 20
Williams, Lucy, 132, 137–38
Williams, Nancy, 51–52, 57
Williams, Sam, 51–52, 57
Williamson, Jerry, 4, 242, 315, 318, 371, 376, 380n17
Williamson, Joel, 227, 238
Wilson, Caroline, 330–32, 335–37
Wilson, Edmund, 175
Wilson, Isaac, 330–31
murder of, 131, 134–35, 322, 328–33
Wilson, Robert (R. B.), 330, 340
Wilson, Samuel Tyndale, 16, 263–65, 275
Wilson, Shannon, 257, 274
Wilson, William Albert, 322–44
Winchester, Va., 30, 137, 205
Winston, N.C., 210
Wolfe, Thomas, 16
Women
in Appalachia, 69, 189–94, 204–19
and bread riots, 208
Confederate, 144–45, 155, 164–65, 305, 318
film treatments of Appalachian, 250, 314–19, 371–74
in Franklin, N.C., 153–55
and guerrilla warfare, 125–37, 207, 213, 273, 314–19, 326–27, 331–32, 337–39
postwar narratives of, 206, 218–20, 221n6
Unionist, 190–96, 317, 326
Woodfin, Elizabeth, 154
Woodfin, John W., 96n3
Woodfin, Nicholas W., 84, 87–88
Woodson, Carter G., 23–24, 70, 247
Woodward, C. Vann, 297
Yeomen. See Nonslaveholders
York, Alvin, 365, 368, 372, 374–75, 377, 380n17
Younce, W. H., 129–31, 134
Zellweger, Renée, 312, 315, 371
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