The Carolina Piedmont
...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...animus that led a white supremacist to murder nine worshippers in Charleston's venerated Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. The counter-narrative chronicled in Denmark Vesey's Garden insists...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...these different groups, and to what extent did their treatment reflect prejudices against the various "others" (such as prostitutes and African Americans) popularly associated with VD? While many historical VD...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...Williams, and Marshall filed suit against the Nashville city schools on behalf of twenty-one African American children, one of whom was fourteen-year-old Robert W. Kelley, who had been turned away...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...detailed analysis of this episode Lisa Woolfork argues that much of the local African American opposition to the auction was deeply gendered; senior male African American activists and civil rights...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and updated articles related to the publication. Then we told that we were self-promoting and should stop; also some of our contributions were removed. As the managing editor at Southern...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...white supremacy was central to everyday life, carried out consciously and (at times) unwittingly by mainstreet individuals and their religious and civic institutions.2See for example, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home:...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...central Ohio, where he became an herbal doctor and grocer. Simpson gradually embraced abolitionism during his servitude and became a fierce advocate for emancipation thereafter. In his preface to The Emancipation Car,...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...their arguments based on helping poorer New Yorkers propelled Central Park (and public projects in other large cities) into being. When Central Park opened in 1858, the City of New...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Chang and Eng's ownership of African American slaves. Excerpt: Mount Airy, or Monticello "She was a slave, and salable as such." —Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Allow...