Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...and riddled them with bullets. It was the first triple lynching in the state since 1888, and the second lynching in Rowan County in just four years. In 1902, the...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...a trip around the time of the marriage. He reportedly purchased a magnolia tree seedling as a gift for his bride and planted it next to their house. A century...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...know it is constructed properly. I know that and then there is always new techniques and try to learn around everybody I go around.15Interview was broadcast November 2, 2005, on...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...becoming very isolated and depressed. "Getting around," they said, was the hardest thing about Columbia. We “can't get around." They described typical days as sitting in the apartment. They could...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...at dawn every day, to go walk with Miz Thelma, a white woman who is her friend. Their route is around the one strip mall in town, where there is...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...devastating effects of the slave trade: the sale away from kin. She married Benjamin Barbour when she was twenty, around 1845. Barbour was born in Greene County, just to the...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...road in near Marks in Quitman County. The first, taken in early spring, shows an unpaved road heading out from the foreground and gently bending to the left in background....
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...and sponsored by a "society of men of color." A recent immigrant to Paris, Séjour was in an amenable environment among kindred spirits who shared his sentiments about slavery. La...