Around the Clock in Cherokee. by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN] Black Clouggeon

Gaffney, S.C.: [The Author] Renaissance Press, 1972. . Large 8vo, bright yellow stiff wrappers, front printed. OCLC shows 6 holdings.A very detailed history of the little town by a retired school teacher (40 years). She was very well-known in her community and there is a public park named for her in Gaffney.Historical notes on the evolution of mankind from the African continent and facts about the cultural development of parts of ancient Africa, far in advance of the Western world. She underlines the theory that the invention of the cotton gin was, in part, responsible for much of the inhumane treatment of slavesÑcotton growing was was not a very profitable venture before the gin,and the few African Americans came over, came as indentured servants and most worked as house servants. The cotton gin increased the capability of processing the raw cotton and called for ever more labor and made both cotton and slavery very profitable businesses.