Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...Division, LC-USZ62-71022. Smithsonian Institution Building can be seen at the top center east of the Potomac River and Virginia, Washington Canal visible, proceeding from the Potomac River due east and...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...a formative political experience for me. Coming from a long line of southern subsistence farmers and circuit-riding preachers, I was instilled with a righteous, if vague, sense of populism that...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the ideological value of the continued relegation of black people to things and, inextricably, carceral value for southern racial capital through the use of such objects for labor" (87). Rituals...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...on native fishing rights. Inspired by civil rights sit-ins and organized by the Survival of the American Indian Society, these protests at Frank's Landing in Puget Sound sought to prevent...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
.... before your eyes . . . right in front of you . . . do you understand, master; right in front of you, asking you for water, for air,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 and was lynched for it—catalyzed men and women into an irresistible movement for change. He's right; so many people roughly of Till's age when...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...to develop a morally strong case for making profits out of right motives." See Murphy, Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717–1838 (New York: Routledge, 2001), 72. But America's founding, like Georgetown...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Church in Lancaster County, South Carolina. The accounts have a wide range of implications. The Reverend William Richardson The Bigham gravestone for the Reverend William Richardson stands in a Davie...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...and immediately after the end of the Civil War, at a former encampment situated across from the town of Tarboro, North Carolina, and within the floodplain of the Tar River,...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...known map of the Mississippi River, by Father Jacques Marquette, but credited to Melchisédec Thévenot. The engraver was likely Jean Baptiste Liébaux. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at...