Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...From 1865 to the present, two starkly contrasting histories of slavery have competed in Charleston, South Carolina, the setting for Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Harbage Page and Juan Logan, Portrait of Denmark Vesey in Famous Last Names, Charleston, South Carolina, 2009. Photo: Rick Rhodes. The carved thorns on the frame of Logan's Portrait of...
Residues of Border Control
...Valdez, "From Workers to Enemies. National Security, State Building and America’s War on Illegal Immigrants," in Narrating Peoplehood in Plural Societies: The United States, Canada and Denmark in Historical Experience...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...Denmark: Aaruhus University Press, 2002). Pilgrimage, among the most ancient of human ritual dramas, is predicated on the recreation of prior sacred journeys (including the celestial tracks of the moon...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...in Queer Geographies: Beirut, Tijuana, Copenhagen, eds. Lasse Lau, Mirene Arsanios, Felipe Zuniga-Gonzalez, Mathia Kryger, and Omar Mismar (Roskilde, Denmark: Museet for Samtidskunst, 2014), 14. Our "natural" notions of space,...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...Church, from Denmark Vesey's role in leading a major slave revolt in 1822 to Emanuel AME's participation in the modern civil rights movement. These exhibitions are connected to a series of collaborative...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...chose the title of general, not king. Haiti also played a "noteworthy role" in Denmark Vesey's 1822 uprising (42). Paulus tends to depict planters as a homogenous class, not distinguishing...