The State House Aflame 1833
...water, let the motherfucker burn Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...
Nigger Street 1937
...closing red as the congregation rises. Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill...
Heaven
...together. Everyone we ever loved, and lost, and must remember. It will be the past. And it will last forever. Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008)....
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
Review Few issues roiled the waters of America and the South more so than temperance reform. In "the Alcoholic Republic"—William Rorabaugh's felicitous phrase—the question of prohibition divided and defined individuals...
Oakland Cemetery
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Ellipsis
White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Library. Katherine Hankins, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Georgia State University, and Zephyr Frank, Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Director of Stanford University's Spatial...
Ebenezer Creek
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Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
Review A Gullah proverb warns, "every sick ain't fa tell de doctor" ("don't tell the doctor all your ailments"). After reading Sex, Sickness, and Slavery, the wisdom of that saying...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...