"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the socia…
"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the socia…
"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the socia…
"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the socia…
by Project Muse, McLaurin, Melton Alonza
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Discusses the trial in 1855 of eighteen-year-old slave Celia for the murder of her sexually abusive master Robert Newsom in Missouri.
This play is based on the trial transcript and court records from The State of Missouri vs. Celia, a Slave #4496, Callaway County Court, Fulton Township, Missouri, 1855; the trial of eighteen-year-old slave, Celia, for the murder of her sexually abusive master Robert Newsom. The…
The first edition of 'Southern Honor' changed our understanding of the antebellum South, revealing how Southern men adopted an ancient honor code that shaped their society from top to bottom. Using legal documents, letters, diaries, and newspaper columns, Wyatt-Brown offers fasc…
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The Washington Post as "a work of enormous imagination and enterprise" and in The New York Times as "an important, original book," Southern Honor revolutionized our understanding of the antebellum South, re…
