Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...Barnard for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") by Victor Séjour (1817–1874), a New Orleans free man of color, was initially published in the March...
"Aint that Something?"
...narrow and deep." © Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 33. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. The hand-drawn...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...hours later, frightened but otherwise unhurt. Instead, within a week Beverleigh is assumed dead and Melissa must accept that "the brand of Cain was on my brow, and that I...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
Review Warning the governor of Kentucky that the white South stood on the brink of destruction in 1860, secession commissioner Stephen F. Hale wrote that Lincoln's election "inaugurates all the...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Key West, Florida, March 2014. Photographs (1, 2, 3) courtesy of the author. Here, beneath your feet, is the Key West AIDS Memorial, the only municipal AIDS Memorial in the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...one hundred striking kids into "the March of the Mill Children," from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home on Long Island. By the early twentieth century, Mother Jones was...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810–1860," Journal of Social History 37, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 709–723. While employment by white colonists—often former slave owners—brought an unspecified number of...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...