Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...against allowing the presumed simplicity of white freedom versus black slavery to obscure the "murkiness of race and class relations in colonial Georgia" (39–40). Georgia from the latest authorities, 1810....
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, New York, 1844. Published by Harper & Brothers. Image is in public domain. In Antoine's embedded narrative, the master Alfred is depicted as a...
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...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...of government power. Top, Robert John Walker, ca. 1844–1860. Photograph by Matthew B. Brady. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2004664076. Bottom, David Wilmot, 1857. Print...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Rap,” “discussion with Florynce Kennedy and Diane Schulder,” June 27, 1971, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. The SCLC collection contains audio recordings of these radio programs, transcripts of aired interviews,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...bread made of musty pea-flour" (110). Ignominy as much as starvation precipitated surrender. Top, "Submarine Torpedo Boat H.L. Hunley, Dec. 6, 1863," Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. Oil on panel by Conrad Wise...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...in any number of new temporal and spatial configurations" (54–55). While this observation is true of any map—as is the relationship between cartographic representation and a given culture's deepest ambitions...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...