West Virginia: The Illegal State, by Jeremy T.K. Farley
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Written by Mingo County native Jeremy T.K. Farley, founder of Appalachian Magazine and descendant of a Confederate prisoner of war from Logan County, Farley not only lays out a very clear case as to why West Virginia was created illegally, but also links the state's unconstitutional beginning to many of the woes that have plagued the Mountain State throughout its entire existence. Championing the cause of Southern West Virginia, this book asserts that much of the Mountain State’s disproportionate level of poverty, political suppression and historic labor wars – especially in the southern region – can be directly attributed to the illegal creation of West Virginia and the subsequent neglect following the West Virginia Statehood Act – America’s coup d’état. Though the state’s motto may boldly proclaim that “Mountaineers are Always Free,” in reality, thanks in large part to the unlawful precedence set by the 1861 assembly, West Virginia’s mountaineers have historically been the most oppressed people in the nation. Perhaps the most heartbreaking element regarding the creation of the State of West Virginia is this: While the rest of the nation was casting off the evil chains of slavery in the closing days of the nineteenth century, the groundwork was being laid in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia for a new people to be enchained. In the century ahead, the plantations and cotton fields of Georgia gave way to the mines and company towns of Matewan and Paint Creek. The slave owners were replaced with distant industrial corporations profiteering on the backs of America’s once independent mountaineers. Taskmasters were exchanged for notorious mercenaries and terrorists such as the Baldwin-Felts Detectives, whose acts of brutality are unrivaled by even the most demonic slave owners. It is both heartbreaking and frightening to witness how quickly the mountain people of southern West Virginia went from being known as the free spirited Scotch-Irish to impoverished miners living in coal camps begging for just a temporary respite – all of which can be traced to the illegal and ill-advised creation of West Virginia.
West Virginia: The Illegal State, by Jeremy T.K. Farley- Amazon Sales Rank: #566491 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .56" w x 6.00" l, .72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 220 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five Stars By Sharon Affinito A gift for my daughter who loves the Civil War history.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Author couldn't control his own bias to subject matter By jpenebaker While hoping to be accepted as a legitimate historical study of the peculiar and unconstitutional manner in which the state of West Virginia was formed out of the state of Virginia in the early days the American Civil War, this book squandered the opportunity of presenting a scholarly study of the events. The author was unable to hold his own bias in check in his writing and the result is a very one sided presentation of information that the reader is just suppose to accept as fact, even though much of the supporting documentation used to back the author's claims are newspaper editorial (which would be comparable today to using Internet blogs to back ones claim). An example of the one-sidedness of the argument would be the use of the general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as the standout example of someone from the area that became West Virginia but who fought for the Confederacy while never mentioning the fact the Jackson family itself was very split by the turbulent events of the time. The format of the book is also distracting, the text is broken up to small, many times unrelated, snippets like one would find in a magazine article but not a book attempting to be a serious historical study.
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