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...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...Fordham University Press, 2010); recent investigations of families' transition to emancipation build on an earlier historiographical debate: E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States (Chicago: University of...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Atlanta's several ethnic enclaves for recently-arrived and settled immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Francisco hopes to work in Atlanta for two or three years and send money...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Jheri was a recently divorced father of four who was beginning to transition. Despite the fact that we now live four or five thousand miles apart, we have been friends...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...a depression caused by troubles in the coal mines." He hoped to find songs sung by miners that would tap into the pathos of a recent past when rural Americans...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...did conflict and debate about its workings. When freedom litigants invoked custom, they often pointed to recently established expectations associated with relations of debt and reciprocation. These customs were less...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 10. Along with the automobile, telephone, and electricity, radio emerged as a key technological component in the negotiations between rural people and government agencies over...
Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...