Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...percent of slaves. These were the numbers reported in a society that publicly frowned upon amalgamation of the races. There were certainly more mixed-race offspring than appear in the record.3Robert...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...and battery against free persons are severely punished even by death if the person struck falls to the ground" (210). Zelia's action, deemed rebellious within the dictates of the system...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...a spare and insistent guitar bending around eerie background notes, we feel the weight of the past and the emptiness of the future. By writing about place through the use...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...little background. Slavery was an active presence in Washington during the years that the first Smithsonian building was under construction, from 1847 to 1855. To the immediate south of the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, the establishment of Shell Island, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a leisure destination for black professionals, sent local whites into a panic. Orange County, California officials conspired with...
Religion and the US South
...habitation. As the South became a predominantly biracial society in the nineteenth century, the coming together of the religions of western Europe and western Africa provided the essential background for...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...of pasture caved in by an underground spring. I remember when he held my new-born, petting the mewling baby like a cat while a delphic Sibyl watched from the wall,...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...visits to experimental sites and meetings with some of Cuba's foremost agricultural innovators. Most memorably, during our two week trip we got to know some farmers and gardeners. I came...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...rights struggle more than those that took place in the spring and early summer of 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, and Danville, Virginia. In both places newspaper and television played important...