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Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction

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Featuring Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists, Written in Blood offers an accurate and uncensored working out of coal mining history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this collection considers our past, present, and long term. Sociologist Wess Harris further documents the infamous Esau scrip system for women, suggesting an institutionalized practice of forced sexual servitude that was once a part of coal company policy. In a conversation with award-winning oral historian Michael Kline, federal mine inspector Larry Layne explains corporate complicity within the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster which killed 78 men and catalyzed the passage of major safety reform. Moving to the following generation of thinkers and activists, attorney Nathan Fetty examines current events in Appalachia, and musician Carrie Kline suggests paths forward for other folks wishing to set their very own course fairly than depend at the kindness of corporations.
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