Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Barbour, other whites were willing to testify to their longstanding relationship. Contacted by Barbour and by Poe to serve as a witness, Winn's former owner wrote to the local Freedmen's...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...was firm, his head held high, his form imposing and vigorous; save the remarkable whiteness of his curly hair, nothing betrayed his age. As is common in that country, he...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...store-community relationship was reciprocal and dialectical, with each entity both supporting and being supported by the other. "Little Five Points Was Just Crawling with Lesbians" Atlanta's 1970s lesbian-feminist community was...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...ideology of "racial confraternity," such as José Martí's.15On nineteenth-century ideologies and practices of whitening in Latin America, George Reid Andrews, Los afroargentinos de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires: Ediciones de la...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...of my contacts, serves as a guide to the continuity of self-sufficient traditions in the Ozarks. The research foundation for this essay consists of archival data collected in and about...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...evidence for many of these interpretations, but yields limited support for widespread use by Mexican immigrants. Rather, a small number appear disproportionately tied to the early distribution network. Many of...