Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Geography and Map Division, 74693187. Referencing literal as well as metaphorical maps and mapping, Paulett's first chapter persuasively establishes the tension between imperial efforts to control trade and local resistance...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...newly incorporated town of Oxford, Georgia, to radiate along broad geometrical avenues from the planned campus, itself organized around a stately oval drive. Devoted in large measure to preparing young...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...to its study sites, has conducted world-renowned research on salt-marsh ecology and other aspects of natural communities on and around the island. Reynolds' widow, Annemarie Reynolds, sold much of the...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...Louisiana remained in practice what historian Kathleen Duval refers to as a "Native Ground" well into the nineteenth century.1Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the...
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...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...clarity, readability, richer multimedia, and a mobile-friendly responsive layout. The new site also introduces a dynamic, open source journal publishing platform constructed with the widely used Drupal 7 content management...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...better. Mama said to stay around the church grounds." "Aw, you're just afraid." "No, it's just that—" "'Mama said to stay around the church grounds!' Fraidycat, I'll go by myself...