Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...California, Miami, Florida, Key West, Florida, and Galveston, Texas. Some have affiliated into a loosely knit network independent of MPCPMP. As the only national organization working to commemorate Middle Passage...
Writing Appalachia
...that shared cultural traits extend the Upland South through East Texas); Northern Appalachia, they assert, is part of the mid-Atlantic and midwestern cultural regions.3 John C. Campbell, The Southern Highlander...
Brushes with War
...a second lieutenant in the Confederate Engineer Corps, was the grandson of Francis Scott Key.) Veteran museumgoers might never have seen some of the important slavery-related canvases, such as Eastman...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...accounts of bondage, would hardly be expected to claim to be southerners and might understandably have identified themselves, once free, as radically "Different-From" the region where they had been denied...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...shared experience. Beginning with the successes and struggles of Austin Dabney—a Revolutionary War hero of mixed ethnicity—Jennison draws readers into the complex world of early Georgia. Like other forgotten Georgians...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...excluding racial minorities.6Carolyn Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014); Miles A. Powell,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...with details. For example he describes J. W. Milam shooting Emmett Till in the back of the head (133). Milam did shoot Till, but just above the ear, as Mace...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...short yet powerful sentences pierce with the intensity of Miles Davis's horn. Top, middle, and bottom, newspaper clippings from "Local Happenings," Union Recorder (Milledgeville, GA), October 6, 1908, pg. 5....
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...