Social Justice Environmentalism
...Most Urgent Needs," Montgomery, Alabama, March, 1955. Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Struggles over segregated space that highlighted injustices offer some of the clearest examples of...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...to the colonists, thereby only feeding more licentiousness" (359), allows his lustful desires to govern his actions. Zelia repeatedly resists him—a testament of the strength of Zelia's humanity and of...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...simply edited and reprinted wire service stories, then added a comment on the opinion page and a letter to the editor or two. So it is a little striking that...
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,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...trace their lineage to White Marsh, one of the Jesuit-owned plantations located in Prince George's County, Maryland. Census of people to be sold, Maryland, 1838. This is the original list...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...sections of the stone separately with a light held above and to the right to imitate lighting seen by the carver. I know of no photograph of this or the...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...of slavery" (5). Planters utilized the ideology of US uniqueness to attack anyone who attempted to interfere with slavery by accusing abolitionists of being dupes of the scheming British. The...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...from Old Northwest states such as Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio — opposed it on economic grounds, arguing that it choked out land and opportunity for whites. Some midwesterners also favored...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...1937, Jonathan Daniels, the thirty-five-year-old editor of the Raleigh, North Carolina, News and Observer, set out on a ten-state tour of the South. The odometer of his Plymouth read 22,246.2...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...It's not too difficult to determine Sibley's predominant readership or likely fan base. In letters, readers rarely identify by race—more often by age, location, or occupation. Of the hundreds of...