{"product_id":"understory-pauletta-hansel-9781985904989","title":"Understory: A Women's History of Appalachia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor Pauletta Hansel, who grew up in southeastern Kentucky, the history of her ancestors traces back to her tenth great-grandmother, a \"tobacco bride\" shipped from England to Jamestown, Virginia, in exchange for 150 pounds of tobacco leaves. After the Revolutionary War, the family migrated from the Chesapeake area to the mountains of North Carolina, and eventually, into the Appalachian coalfields. As Hansel explored archives and artifacts, she found this ancestry was incomplete, remembered solely through the lives of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a captivating and contemplative voice, Hansel's \u003ci\u003eUnderstory \u003c\/i\u003eweaves history, genealogy, and poetry to chronicle the untold story of her foremothers. Hansel does not shy away from hard truths, such as her family's enslavement of people of African descent, their support for the Confederacy, and their displacement of Indigenous people. Through research, her travels across the US, and her own family stories and memories, she makes visible those whose lives were hidden between the lines of documents left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn revealing generations of women whose experiences have only been glimpsed within others' narratives, \u003ci\u003eUnderstory \u003c\/i\u003eis not simply one family's story--it is a microcosm of the history of Appalachian American women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pauletta Hansel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1985904985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781985904989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Pauletta Hansel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852679426303,"sku":"9781985904989","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understory-pauletta-hansel-9781985904989","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}