| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.1

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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. By William P. Jones. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xv + 235 pp. Illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $20.00.

William P. Jones, in The Tribe of Black Ulysses, examines the role of African Americans in the southern lumber industry—an amalgam of businesses that was by far the largest industrial employer in the South during the years from 1870 to 1910. The industry also had an African American majority workforce making mill work an essential part of African American participation in the southern industrialization process. Historians often have depicted black workers as passive actors; however, Jones's monograph portrays them as active participants and shapers of southern industrialization.

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