Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta," Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta/. As a response and challenge to these limitations, Smith constructs the food story of Mississippi by drawing on civil...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...the Free Government Bathhouse created by the HSR in 1878, increasing numbers did so at private enterprises.15Haywood, Analyses of the Waters, 5. Hot Springs was "fast becoming a fashionable resort."16J.L....
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...la Fuente and Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020); Keila Grinberg, "Freedom Suits and Civil...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...continuing her marriage to Barbour, so he forbade the freedman from trespassing on his property and shot at him when he did. Poe brought Barbour before the Freedmen's Court, arguing...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...birth control and found it unnecessary to provide any services to African Americans. White professionals who sponsored birth control services for blacks repeatedly changed their minds and terminated financial support...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Central Plains 20 (Summer 1997): 102-115. On the "Free Labor" concept more generally and its relation to race, see Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Wine Drinking ceremony. The services last until midnight and then recess. Usually the church members go to one of the camp house kitchens for coffee and to visit. Services are...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...the Mississippi Delta and an abundance of hardwood forests and natural resources, along with a tradition of entrepreneurialism and a history of labor-intensive human productivity, supplied the means to drive...