Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to county probate records, which not...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...diseases. Scientific support for such views came in part from northern comparative anatomists such as Louis Agassiz and Samuel George Morton. Agassiz was popular in the South for being an...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...or geographic origin. As Michael Gomez notes in Exhanging Our Country Marks (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1998), it is notoriously difficult to track the geographical origins of enslaved peoples, as...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Residues of Border Control
...and Theoretical Perspective, ed. Michael Bøss (Aarhus: Aarhus Academic Press, 2011). Ellis Island, as a space of memory, resulted from a complex interaction of actors and perspectives, including the Immigration...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...Trust Company, 1865–1874, reel 3. This fluidity defies Pargas's efforts to make meaningful comparisons between those caught up in interstate, intrastate, and urban hire trades. As a result, Slavery and...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...article about the sheriff in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 26 May 1968, p. 172. The African American narrative is different. Elders we have known recalled that when they were children...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...as sociologist Scott Frickel suggests, we also need to focus on "how, where, and why ignorance, once produced, becomes institutionalized."3Scott Frickel, "Not Here and Everywhere: The Non-production of Scientific Knowledge,"...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...transatlantic slave trade, Eltis has been instrumental to this effort. Through information on the years, ships, numbers of captive Africans delivered, and embarkation and disembarkation locations obtained from Voyages, the...