Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property.
In sharp contrast to the "melting pot" reputation of the United States, the American South--with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement--has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John …
This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in …
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Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion an…
Much that is commonly accepted about slavery and religion in the Old South is challenged in this significant book. The eight essays included here show that throughout the antebellum period, southern whites and blacks worshipped together, heard the same sermons, took communion an…
It never snows -- Shadows of the plantation -- Garlands of straw -- Pulpit and pew -- Politics as a major sport -- Fascism: Southern style -- Black figures in the sun -- The machine's last frontier -- They are not all monsters -- The philosopher's stone.