| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Slavery in the American Mountain South. By Wilma A. Dunaway. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii, 352 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 0-521-81275-5. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-521-01215-5.)

There is no modern historical overview of slavery in Appalachia, and so this study by Wilma A. Dunaway, a recognized Appalachian scholar who teaches sociology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is a welcome addition to the literature. Its stated purpose is to correct the "prevailing scholarly view" (p. 5) that the institution of slavery was both less significant and less oppressive in Appalachia than elsewhere in the South. According to Dunaway, recent studies have failed adequately to incorporate quantitative analysis or the slave narratives.

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