Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...one another. A soundscape loop presents a range of first person commentaries, including WPA oral histories, about slave sales. In its new location, the sack is hung entirely vertically, with...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...in turn, helped shape the development of ideas about American exceptionalism. Incendie du Cap [Burning of Cape Francais], Saint-Domingue, 1820. Frontispiece by unknown creator. Originally published in Saint-Domingue, ou Histoire...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...associate professor of English at Miami University of Ohio where she teaches early American literature, culture, and environment. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
Whiskey and Geography
...and through protests they made it clear that whiskey was their only source of cash and their way out of debt. Taxing that main means of escape from dire poverty...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...for slaves in the Deep South, slaves became more likely to run away. Border slave-owners and slaves made bargains that mitigated the mutual threats of southward sale and northward escape....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...succumbing to the effects of smallpox, treaties, and armed conflict. At first, the self-sufficient farmers in this heavily wooded landscape owned few slaves. Enmeshed in a spreading web of neighbors...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...a Wal-Mart built on a strip mine bench, using each setting to highlight the ways in which commerce and consumption are transforming the mountain landscape. Donald R. Rasmussen says, "The...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...structure of most ads is uniform, some offer deeper insight into the global system of slavery. This 1775 ad from Wilmington, for example, details the escape of a slave named Quamino...