Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...ongoing process of ordering the past," a "product of intentional creation."2W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...it or perhaps doing their best to keep far away. Pendleton's population (both the town proper and the broader "Pendleton District") during the early nineteenth century was notably more dense...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Highway A1A. A central public plaza was part of the colonial city plan, in accordance with King Phillip II's Spanish Royal Ordinance of 1573 mandating an official plan for all...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...of the American South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 97. Others have discussed Percy’s sexuality in more positive terms, most notably William Armstrong Percy in "William Alexander Percy: His...
Religion and the US South
...forever to be bondsmen. Southern writers developed the image of plantations as well-ordered pastoral places, presided over by benevolent patriarchs, an image with deep roots in Western biblical tradition. Proceedings,...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...genuine expression of piety and grace,” sung with an “atmosphere of reverence and worship.”38John Bealle, Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folksong. University of Georgia Press, 1997, 215....
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...private interest groups in an attempt to deny blacks physical access to the Pacific Beach Club, to condemn the property, and to convert the land into a public—i.e. white—beach. White...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...city-wide art event, LiFT Art Salon sponsored an October 18, 2015 gathering to discuss hip hop, technology, and fine art. Fahamu Pecou, Emory Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA) graduate student and ELEVATE 2015 curator, placed Atlanta hip...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Prologue to the Protest Movement, 60-61. Already alerted by Armstrong's report, the Post-Dispatch, along with other Missouri papers and the Associated Press, sent correspondents and photographers to the scene. By...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...