Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...mulatto, found a more open-minded milieu with less racial prejudice where he could exercise liberties not allowed in antebellum New Orleans. In 1837, a black man living in the United...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...to Black people, the town was originally located on just over one hundred acres in what is now known as Greater Orlando.5United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service,...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...such tactical allies as Picasso and Alfred North Whitehead, she remained a fascinated student of past and present life in the United States, from the time she began writing The...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...in Zora Neale Hurston's musical repertoire. As she lets loose on "Mule on the Mount," "the most widely distributed work song in the United States," we hear the varied shades...
The Liminal Site
...and neighborhood and second-growth woods that seem much older. More: Red Mountain is almost the last ridge of the great Appalachians running nearly the length of the eastern United States....
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Etcheson. "These events united free-state settlers in the conviction that their political rights and liberties were being trampled by a government determined to impose slavery upon them."12Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...