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...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...show's website: "While many islands in the Caribbean have poisoned or paved over their ecological riches on land and in the sea in pursuit of a growing tourist industry, Cuba's...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
An Excerpt from the Introduction Cover image based on Tu lugar, 2006. Painting by Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy. Throughout the nineteenth century, aided by railroads and steam technologies, industrial plantations...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
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...
Palomares Bajo
...costly as a precedent for "future incidents." Plutonium was spread far beyond the 100-yard debris scattering at bomb site #2 and the 500-yard dispersal range at bomb site #3, even...