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The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachias society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier.Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the regions natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.

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title	:	The First American Frontier : Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies
author	:	Dunaway, Wilma A.
publisher	:	University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0807822361
print isbn13	:	9780807822364
ebook isbn13	:	9780807861172
language	:	English
subject	Capitalism--Appalachian Region--History, Capitalism--Southern States--History, Appalachian Region--Economic conditions, Southern States--Economic conditions.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	HC107.A127D86 1996eb
ddc	:	330.974
subject	:	Capitalism--Appalachian Region--History, Capitalism--Southern States--History, Appalachian Region--Economic conditions, Southern States--Economic conditions.

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The First American Frontier

Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860

Wilma A. Dunaway

The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

The University of North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill & London

Page iv

1996 The University of North Carolina Press

Manufactured in the United States of America

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dunaway, Wilma A.
The first American frontier: transition to capitalism in southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 / Wilma A. Dunaway.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2236-I (cloth).
ISBN 0-8078-4540-x (pbk.)
1. CapitalismAppalachian RegionHistory.
2. CapitalismSouthern StatesHistory.
3. Appalachian RegionEconomic conditions.
4. Southern StatesEconomic conditions. I. Title.
HC107.A127D86

1996

95-2790
330.974dc20

CIP
00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1

Publication of this book has been supported by a generous grant from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.

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To Donald Armour Clelland
professor extraordinaire
It is no small thing to have given
your life to liberation of the world
through the vehicle of teaching and
inspiring those who go forth.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Transition to Capitalism on American Frontiers:
Toward a Paradigm Shift

2. Slaves, Skins, and Wampum:
Destruction of Southern Appalachia's Precapitalist Mode of Production, 1540-1763

3. Settlers, Speculators, and Squatters:
Competition for Appalachian Land Resources, 1790-1860

4. The Poor Man Had No Chance:
Formation of a Landless Agrarian Semiproletariat

5. Makin' Do or Chasing Profits?:
The Agrarian Capitalism of Southern Appalachia

123

6. Diggers of the Country:
Industrial Production for Export

157

7. The Spatial Organization of External Trade

195

8. The Pervasive Reach of Global Commodity Chains

225

9. Appalachian Communities and Noneconomic Articulation with the Capitalist World System

249

10. Economic Crisis and Deepening Peripheralization

287

Appendix. Essay on Quantitative Methods

323

Notes

333

Bibliography

387

Index

435

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Risking indenturement in Chattanooga, Tennessee

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A large Ohio County, West Virginia, manufacturer

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Antebellum Wheeling, West Virginia

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Antebellum Knoxville, Tennessee

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Steamboating grain down the Tennessee River

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Export by flatboat down the Tennessee River

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Southwestern Virginia hog drive headed to Richmond

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