Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915.(Brief Article)

Publication: Business History Review

Publication Date: 22-SEP-91

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Black Towns and Profit: Promotion and Development in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1877-1915. By Kenneth Marvin Hamilton * Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. xii + 185 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $29.95.

For many years historians have shown an interest in the all-black communities that sprang up in the trans-Appalachian West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. How did they begin? What were the motives of their founders? Were black settlers seeking a haven from white oppression? Were these towns utopian experiments? Or were they, as...

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