Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
..."the shifting element" made up 56 percent of the workforce, and only 25 percent of southern workers stayed in the same mill for twelve months or longer.29Ethel L. Best, Lost...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
Deep Ellum Blues
...1935. Deep Ellum became one of the signature references for the group, including songs such "Just Because You're in Deep Ellum" and "What's the Matter with Deep Elm?" (the spelling...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...appear on your 'Dance Party'?"42Hazel Jordan, letter to J.D. Lewis (WRAL), May 8, 1966, Lewis Family Papers, folder 140. Fans also felt free to criticize the format of Teenage Frolics....
Religion and the US South
...anything else. The mountains of east Tennessee were an important hearth for white Pentecostalism, giving birth to the Church of God, while the Deep South of Mississippi and nearby Memphis...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Monica (Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, 2004). The Hotel Ponce de Leon, the Hotel Alcazar, and the Hotel Cordova line King Street, just steps from the Plaza de la Constitución (Figures 41–43).30The...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...children: Samuel M Bryant (born 1854); William Bryant, (born 1862); Ellen Bryant (born 1866); Joseph Elbert, Jr. (born 1872), Francis O. Elpert (born 1877). The family is listed in the 1900 census at...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...J. W. Neal slave house was near the city's center market. Even free people of color did not feel safe on DC's streets. From 1852 until 1906, the celebrated free...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...oversaw the harbor's dredging, which continued for several years. Imposing steam-fueled engines churned the roots, sand and gravel over bulwarks, carving a fifteen-foot channel from the shallow bayou, transforming the...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...inhabitants were peasants living in the coffee region.12Irene Fernández Aponte, El cambio de soberanía en Puerto Rico: El otro '98 (Madrid: Editorial Mapfre, 1992). Top, Coffee-Drying Plot near Mayaguez, Puerto...