Haywood County African American communities emerged in part from the necessity of neighborly cooperation for survival and protection from racial terror that began shortly after emancipation. Many communities were continuations of communities that had developed among people enslaved on area plantations. The 1930s WPA Slave Narratives indicate that in the absence of a national policy ...
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