St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...(1984); Jane Landers, ed., Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the America (London: Frank Cass, 1996); and Margo Pope, "Slavery and the Oldest City," The St. Augustine...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Music and musical instrument stores Concert and performance venues Music making at home, in the workplace, and in public spaces Sacred and religious music, religious musical cultures Song collecting and...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...or impose "artificial limitations" on who we can be. You arrive and park. You are told you will not be able to move your car until you leave the island;...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...a great deal in the reading. With impressive powers of description, Wise builds narrative tension and constructs dramatic arcs without sacrificing complexity. The work strikes a balance between fluid forward-moving...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...stand for bric-a-brac," a marble-topped mahogany table, two large upholstered rosewood sofas, two large chairs and five smaller chairs covered in the same material, and unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...published in 1852, and Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter’s Northern Bride (1854). All of these novels were written (or revised) within the shadow of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and they can...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
Review Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America is the first literary history to focus exclusively upon Confederate literature. Dating back to Edmund...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Birmingham News, and the Louisville Courier, to investigate case after case of racial injustice in the South and the nation. Her 1948 marriage to Carl Braden, the son of recent...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...safety and the false claims of patent medicines became public causes in the early twentieth century. Successful campaigns of immunization eradicated infectious diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, and mumps....