Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...up, preservation, metadata. Paul O'Grady will remember the weeks we spent working with Emory metadata librarian Laura Akerman. Everything was a blank slate. Everything required decisions. At launch, we used...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...LaFollette, Tennessee, and one such barn dance program was the Tennessee Jamboree. LaFollette Map of LaFollette, Tennessee. (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) The Tennessee Jamboree was created to entertain the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...la Fuente and Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020); Keila Grinberg, "Freedom Suits and Civil...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...her son John Lucas, laborer. The 1880 census shows her still residing at 1732 L NW with her daughter Margaret Carter, son in law Spencer Carter, and their young children:...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...by Spanish explorers and missionaries on the lands of the Payaya Indians in 1718, San Antonio de Béxar was capital of the Spanish and later Mexican colonial province called Tejas....
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...limits of acceptable German settlement based upon a racialized discourse of "climate" largely informed by the susceptibility of European bodies to yellow fever. German-American historian La Vern Rippley acknowledged in...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...within the last few months."19"Mary Warner Epidemic," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), May 8, 1923. Two days later, at the request of District Attorney Marr and a number of medical professionals, City...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...in 2010, and the NOLA Hip-Hop Archive, which I founded in 2012 and is housed at the Amistad Research Center.4The NOLA Hip-Hop Archive is the first university-affiliated rap archive in...