Social Justice Environmentalism
Essay In a 2017 essay, National Museum of African American History and Culture director Lonnie Bunch noted that, like much of black history, environmental activism by people of color is...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...formerly been. Louisiana, like Cuba, also experienced the "same cycle of expansion and intensification of slavery after 1800 which had occurred in Saint-Domingue between 1750 and 1794," and many planters,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...race, religion, law, science, and history and with myriad other prejudices, doctrines, sentiments, and myths. Georgetown College, Washington, D.C., ca. 1800. Engraving by Casimir Bohn. Courtesy of the Library of...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...place widows in a potentially vulnerable position."8Woodmason, 290. Waxhaw Presbyterian Church, Lancaster County, South Carolina. Built around 1800, it was the third meeting house of the congregation. This is the...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Indies "likely inspired Gabriel [Prosser] and his fellow insurrectionists to secure emancipation through violence" (29). Like Washington and Louverture, Gabriel, when he led a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800,...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
Review Benjamin Wise's book is a fiercely intelligent yet accessible biography of elite white Delta Mississippian William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), poet, pedagogue, patron of the arts, and author of the...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...use the word "blues" to advertise her traveling act. With her husband William "Pa" Rainey, she toured extensively with a number of different traveling groups, including the famous Rabbit Foot...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ship's deck, did not enter service until 1998. Although the net value of shipping continued to increase during this period due to trade in grain and petroleum, the number of...