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By Claude A. Frazier, with F.K. Brown. 131 pp., illustrated. Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. $19.95. ISBN 0-8061-2454-7.

The history of coal mining is rife with greed, inhumanity, and incredible danger. Sweatshops, exploitation of child labor, absentee ownership of highly profitable industries, and destruction of native culture were all phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. The mining of coal in Appalachia was a terrible example of this process. It has greatly distorted the local culture and resulted in high rates of death and disease from self-destructive lifestyles in mining areas, even now.

The story began when railroads traversed Appalachia en route to the Midwest just before and after the Civil War. Coal was needed to fuel the engines of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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