Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...in turn, helped shape the development of ideas about American exceptionalism. Incendie du Cap [Burning of Cape Francais], Saint-Domingue, 1820. Frontispiece by unknown creator. Originally published in Saint-Domingue, ou Histoire...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...space jumbled with coats and book bags, we would stand in front of her and open our mouths and recite. "I" was In the beginning, of course. And "L" was...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Benson, ca. 1850, 96 X 85 inches. Cotton fabrics, moderately thick cotton batting, backed with plain white sheeting. Quilted by hand in diagonal crosshatch. Bound by turning backing to front....
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...struggle with the J. P. Stevens corporation. While the episode called attention to Sutton, it also showed many other mill women front and center. A bold, multi-faceted effort, the campaign...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...Brenda Stevenson explores the impact of an age- and sex-selective internal trade on domestic lives and gendered orders. In an often overlooked essay about Mississippi's cotton frontier, Steven F. Miller...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...equity by stopping current, as well as preventing future and repairing historical, oppression of frontline and vulnerable communities. Global Climate Strike in London, England, September 20, 2019. Photograph by Kristian...
Writing Appalachia
...Kristian Thacker. © Kristian Thacker. Appalachian literature is thriving. From the earliest oral traditions to print accounts of frontier exploration, from local color to modernism and postmodernism, from an exuberant...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...