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The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana images
...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge. Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Review A Gullah proverb warns, "every sick ain't fa tell de doctor" ("don't tell the doctor all your ailments"). After reading Sex, Sickness, and Slavery, the wisdom of that saying...
Bunk Richardson
...weaker, all night long. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
At Cornwall Furnace
...and give it back. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
In the Magic City
...groove the night again. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Gone With the Wind
...anymore. Published in Southern Quarterly 45.1 (Fall 2007): 53-54. Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
At Liberty (1964)
...ever again. Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...