Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...detailed, and the parlor and sitting room furnishings demonstrate the difference in the traditional functions of these rooms. The furniture in the parlor included a square rosewood piano, a "mahogany...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...proved his point. Samuel Cartwright was the most prolific and imaginative discoverer of diseases purportedly peculiar to the Negro. He gifted the world with drapetomania, the disease that caused slaves...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
John McWilliams, Hampton Plantation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 1973. In the early 1970s, John was teaching photography at Georgia State University when we discovered McClellanville through Robert Frank’s photograph “Barber shop...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
Advertisement announcing reward for runaway slave, Wilmington Advertiser, May 24, 1839. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and North...
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...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...in Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, ed. Daniel Lee Kleinman and Kelly Moore (New York: Routledge, 2014), 263–276. For example, studies of CDC's shambolic performance should include close...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the journey. There is no small bench by the road, there is not even a tree scored and initialized that I can visit, or you can visit, in Charleston, or...
Writing Appalachia
...Tennessee towns along the Great Road, a heavily traveled trade route running along the contemporary I-81 corridor from Pennsylvania to Southern Appalachia.14Betsy K. White, Great Road Style: The Decorative Arts...