JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I was having a breezy little time looking through Piedmont Carolinas, Where Wealth Awaits You, published by Duke Power in 1937 and extolling the many virtues of living in the section of North Carolina between the western mountains and the western edge of the lowlands--this is not far from where I'm sitting right now, in the Southern Highlands, 50 miles west. I was enjoying reading about the beautiful roads, and the fine country (where farmers outnumbered industrial workers three to one).
But then the romance stopped, bumping into this:
The pamphlet was pleasant and standard-enough discussing manufactures,industrial markets, industries, farms, opportunities, and so on, and then along comes this bit, folded into the teased normalcies.
Even after having this "discovery" experience so many times in a long reading history, after happily reading along in calm little texts on not-very-much-at-all and then finding grinding bedrock racism, it is still a shocking experience. (Also by the time this pamphlet was published in 1937 the word "Negro"--after a long history and battle, was finally and mostly universally accepted as a capitalized word. But not in this publication.)
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