Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...political behaviors within Latin America were variations on their European or North American counterparts. Across Latin America, Afro-descendant peasants took manifold paths to reach rural worlds of freedom. Some were...
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...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...haunting quality, with plaintive tones and a sound that to the uninitiated might seem more at home in medieval or renaissance Europe than in the US South. The crowd will...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...1918 New Hampshire Avenue. Joseph Elbert, Jr. a bricklayer, died in 1904 and was buried at Columbia Harmony Cemetery. Josephine Lucas Elbert, housekeeper, died August 24, 1924 and was buried at Columbia...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...doubled, at once opening and closing, losing and then finding itself in its own cheap performance" (180). These kinds of juxtapositions are the crux of what Comentale identifies as "vernacular...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...that early European explorers encountered in the Americas were actually anthropogenic, created through human modification and management.6Bill Balee and Darrell Posey, Resource Management in Amazonia: Indigenous and Folk Strategies (New...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...among the persons assembled."38See the August 17, August 21, September 21, and October 5, 1849 issues of the Pendleton Messenger. There was no doubt in the minds of Pendletonians about the...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
Blog Post Daphene Causey of Alabaster, Alabama, leads at the 113th session of the Lookout Mountain Sacred Harp Singing Convention, Pine Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Collinsville, Alabama, August 27, 2016....
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...