Deep in the American South, poverty was rarely temporary. For many families, it was inherited.
In the cotton mill towns of the American South, generations of families lived in a world defined by lint dust, mill whistles, and long days of exhausting labor. Poverty was not simply a hardship. It was a system that shaped communities, reputations, and the expectations placed on entire bloodlines. Families like these were often labeled with a single dismissive word: lintheads.
Born of Nothing traces the story of Southern mill families shaped by that world. Through the intertwined experiences of two families raised in the same linthead culture, the book explores the lives, struggles, and choices that defined mill-town America.
At the center of the narrative is a boy born in 1934 to a teenage mother with no husband and no clear place in society. The identity of his father was never known. For years, he and his mother drifted through the border counties of North and South Carolina, moving between sharecropper cabins, shack towns, and mill villages during the hardest years of the Great Depression.
Eventually, they settled in a crude wooden shack on the side of Stoney Mountain above Hendersonville, North Carolina. Life there demanded resilience in the face of hunger, violence, and the rigid class divisions that defined mill-town society.
From these beginnings unfolds the story of a sprawling family whose members would follow very different paths. Some remained trapped in cycles of poverty, abuse, and crime. Others found ways forward through discipline, education, faith, and service.
Authors Jason G. Pike and Donald Williams, both descendants of Southern mill families and lifelong friends who first met at Clemson University, bring together family testimony, historical research, and personal memory to uncover a largely forgotten chapter of Southern life.
Part memoir and part exploration of American class history, Born of Nothing examines how the same origins can lead to radically different outcomes, and how the choices of one generation can change the direction of the next.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Deep in the American South, poverty was rarely temporary. For many families, it was inherited.In the cotton mill towns of the American South, generations of families lived in a world defined by lint dust, mill whistles, and long days of exhausting labor. Poverty was not simply a hardship. It was a system that shaped communities, reputations, and the expectations placed on entire bloodlines. Families like these were often labeled with a single dismissive word: lintheads.Born of Nothing traces the story of Southern mill families shaped by that world. Through the intertwined experiences of two families raised in the same linthead culture, the book explores the lives, struggles, and choices that defined mill-town America.At the center of the narrative is a boy born in 1934 to a teenage mother with no husband and no clear place in society. The identity of his father was never known. For years, he and his mother drifted through the border counties of North and South Carolina, moving between sharecropper cabins, shack towns, and mill villages during the hardest years of the Great Depression.Eventually, they settled in a crude wooden shack on the side of Stoney Mountain above Hendersonville, North Carolina. Life there demanded resilience in the face of hunger, violence, and the rigid class divisions that defined mill-town society.From these beginnings unfolds the story of a sprawling family whose members would follow very different paths. Some remained trapped in cycles of poverty, abuse, and crime. Others found ways forward through discipline, education, faith, and service.Authors Jason G. Pike and Donald Williams, both descendants of Southern mill families and lifelong friends who first met at Clemson University, bring together family testimony, historical research, and personal memory to uncover a largely forgotten chapter of Southern life.Part memoir and part exploration of American class history, Born of Nothing examines how the same origins can lead to radically different outcomes, and how the choices of one generation can change the direction of the next. Through the experiences of two families raised in the linthead culture, explore the struggles that defined Southern mill-town America. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798988961048
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