Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation to satisfy the lust of half-civilized Africans."1Charles B. Dew,...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
Introduction This here tale begins in the summer of that year, whatever year it was . . . The year don't matter. The national situation don't even matter, because even...
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
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
"Aint that Something?"
...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...This year's reenactment, occuring later this month, will be filmed for the documentary Always In Season by San Francisco-based filmaker Jacqueline Olive. Below is the flyer for the event, organized by Cassandra Greene and the Georgia...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Hop in Charleston, West Virginia; Ginny Pace's Saturday Hop in Houston, Texas; John Dixon's Dixon on Disc in Mobile, Alabama; Bill Sanders's show in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Dewey Phillips's Pop Shop...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...rally in downtown Houston on the first day of the janitors strike, Houston, Texas, October 23, 2006. Photograph by Meenu Bhardwaj for SEIU. Courtesy of Flickr. Creative Commons license CC...