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Industry Meets Agriculture: The Emergence of the Farmer/Peddler in the Carolina Piedmont
Record #:
1734
Author(s):
Abstract:
In the 20th-century North Carolina saw a meeting of agriculture and industry, which gave rise to a hybrid occupation called farmer/peddler. Industry created ways for farmers to peddle their products, thereby raising the farmers' standards of living.
Source:
North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 41 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1994,
p24-34, il