Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...pales in comparison to states such as New York and Pennsylvania, as well as that of other slave states such as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland. In fact, between 1850–1860 it...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in recent decades. Between 1960 and 1980, no fewer than 170,000 whites abandoned the city and Atlanta's white population was reduced from two-thirds of the total to a mere third....
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...has nearly tripled since 1970 after remaining almost unchanged between 1940 and 1970; the state's black population grew by nearly 601,000 residents between 2000 and 2010.24Chris Kromm, "Black Belt Power:...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...a sprawling plantation in her homelands in what is now the state of Mississippi. Dinsmoor—who served as federal liaison between the Choctaw Nation and the US government—was openly disdainful of Choctaw...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Butler visited the plantations infrequently, he depended on overseers like Roswell King, Sr., and his son Roswell, Jr., for daily management. Between them, the two Kings managed the Butler plantations...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
..."B.C." and daughters Betty and Martha suffered similarly. Before long, she noted that their symptoms were seasonal: they set in when the "big land owners" who owned the fields surrounding...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...first names of immigrants and their family members. They arrived in north Georgia with their four children in 1999 after having lived for ten years in Los Angeles. Better job...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...spirit. If you are interested in the area then you could probably get the same deal on a home in Remington and have a better sense of security and safety....
August, 1959: Morning Service
...vanishing species, which it was, which all songs are, years before the stroke wrenched her face into a gnarled silence, this morning before all that she led us across Jordan,...
The Heavenly Port, Common Meter, 378t
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye…… From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17...