Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...versatility blurred the boundaries between formal and informal law, between legal experts and ordinary litigants, between courts, the governor's office, and hamlets tucked away in forest thickets in the interior....
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Central Plains 20 (Summer 1997): 102-115. On the "Free Labor" concept more generally and its relation to race, see Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...again assisted by Jim Kruse. The in-house WOWZA server grants us control over streaming content and allows us to respond quickly and efficiently to any fair-use contestations. The Publishing Process...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Journal, June 4, 1963. Image courtesy of Flickr user elycefeliz. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Historians, commentators, and participants have suggested connections between the media, especially television news, and...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...of New Orleans emerged along with the propensity toward use by youth."7Bonnie and Whitebread, 92. Moreover, younger users were "drawn from the same socioeconomic classes as the adult users."8Bonnie and...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...in public domain. Bottom, Typhus is spread by lice... Report lice at once; Use louse powder, ca. 1940. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Colson and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...profits, and the accumulating wealth from them, came from the wages lost to freed Black people because they were forced into virtual peonage through the use of the Black Codes;...