Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...and his fellow trustees to create a refuge for the common man, namely white, yeoman farmers. The ban on slave importation did not evince anti-slavery persuasion; rather, the founders of...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...and litigants puzzled out enslaved people's rights of access to autonomy, property, and family, case by case. Would a woman who had purchased her freedom while pregnant give birth to...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
Introduction DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947. Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Early in 1949, Dottie Colson wrote to...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...of John A. Lomax (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996); Szwed, Alan Lomax. "The best pay-dirt I struck in Louisiana," he recalled, "was a young woman who worked in a...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...works seem to have been unable to avoid using the form not only to promote their way of life but also to express their deep anxieties about it. Plantation Romances...
The Carolina Piedmont
...all that is "southern," it has a distinctive history and geography. A yeoman farming society took shape in this region, formed, as cultural geographer D. W. Meinig has written, "by...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Shand, and I had a pick-your-own at that point. Then I hired a woman, who was likely in her seventies, and she came with her two grandchildren, and they helped...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...concerns an elite light-skinned woman who discovers that she is a slave at the time of her father's death. Here, Warren rewrites the story of the "tragic mulatta" told in...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...Southern history. See Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985) for an interpretation that stresses...