Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...days work bricklayers at $2.50, 2 days carpenters at $3.00 per day and 16 1/2 days work of laborers, at 1.25 per day" and "8 days stonecutters" at 2.00 per...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...his master's life . . . but today, today when he knows that, in eighteen hours, his wife will no longer be among the living, he flies to throw himself...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...bayou: naissance d'une poésie acadienne en Louisiane," The French Review 70, No. 3 (February, 1997): 439–451. But challenges to the song hunter's cultural capital did not materialize overnight. Cajun Country: Lache...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...finished twenty-seven days later, earning four dollars per day for dispensing with Cherokee possessions. They delivered the sales money to Fort Cass for shipment to the Indian Commissioners in Washington...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Bridge, Selma, Alabama. Earlier that day, upriver in Selma, with the Edmund Pettus Bridge as skeletal backdrop, McCain had spoken to a small, heavily white gathering, announcing that he would...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...aims to prevent misconceptions he fears are taking root about the uniform nature of the segregated South and forestall mistaken present-day lessons that ignore the role of class in the...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...breaks in the back-dune-meadow vegetation indicate previous shorelines. Notice also how shorebirds use such sandbars as resting places before flying away. Glossary of Terms Back-dune meadow – Vegetated area behind...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...supervising some of St. Augustine's more dubious attractions, including "Luella Day McConnell's Fountain of Youth," where visitors still sip today.46Amy Howard, "Public Market (Slave Market)," published February 5, 2009, accessed...
The Shenandoah Valley
...that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them." Sheridan's troops burned large swaths through the Valley, drove off livestock,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...what to do.34Weathers, Shitkickers, 44. This shared emotional response builds upon the story's central engagement with the day-to-day struggles of gay men and women and disenchantment that the story increasingly...