Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
Every week Miz Nell Weaver had us memorize a Bible verse, one for each letter of the alphabet. This was in the fourth grade, Centreville, Alabama, 1956. One by one,...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...1932, 5; Sept. 8, 1932, 5; Dec. 21, 1933, 6; Feb. 3, 1938, 6; Feb. 17, 1938, 6; March 3, 1938, 5; April 7, 1938, 6; Dec. 13, 1939, 9;...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Advertiser, May 19, 1866; Lowell Daily Citizen and News, May 22, 1866; US Statutes at Large, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Washington, DC, 1866), 589–90. The illegitimate birth resulted from a...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...a manufacturing site. Ben Hains, Old Saltpeter Pipes, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1812, 1889. As Mammoth Cave was valued for its economic inutility, visitors also cherished the escape it offered from political...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...(Source: "Shooting the Chutes," Atlanta Constitution (April 9, 1896), pg. 10. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, privately-owned amusement parks dotted the American landscape, and by 1920, between...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Soto and Vitachuco, 1898. Image by George Gibbs. Originally published in Grace King's De Soto and his Men in the Land of Florida (The Macmilliam Company, 1898). Courtesy of the...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989). The unearthing of new archaeological information, as...
The Carolina Piedmont
...profit. A seemingly bottomless pool of displaced tenant and sharecropper families provided generations of cheap, exploitable labor upon which the new industrial class built its wealth and political power. The...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...gets the worst room and it is seldom well lighted or clean."2Charles W. Chesnutt, "The White and the Black," Boston Evening Transcript, March 20, 1901, 13. The "Colored Waiting Room"...