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From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans
Dessens examines the legacy of approximately 15,000 Saint-Domingue refugees - whites, slaves, and free people of color - who settled in Louisiana between 1791 and 1815. Forced to …
Southern History Remixed
Southern History Remixed spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ‘n’ roll in the …
The Denmark Vesey Affair
In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for their alleged plot to murder the white citizens of Charleston, South …
The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest
This volume's contributors expand the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the Jim Crow South and the years between 1954 and …
Burning Faith
In the 1990s, churches across the southeastern United States were targeted and set ablaze. These arsonists predominately targeted African American congregations and captured the …
Black Power in Dixie
From Reconstruction to recent times, the middle-class black leadership in Atlanta, while often subordinating class and gender differences to forge a continuous campaign for …
The Changing South of Gene Patterson
The Changing South of Gene Patterson celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. …
South of the South
Using unusual and revealing primary materials from the careers of two remarkable Jewish women, Raymond Mohl offers an interpretation of the role of Jewish civil rights activists in …
Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era
The African American experience in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from the antebellum period through ReconstructionThis book examines the complexities of life for African Americans …
Slavery and the Peculiar Solution
"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manumitted, the manumitters, and …
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture
Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize. Finalist, Hooks National Book AwardHow Black women used lessons in literacy to crack the foundation of white …
Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water
Environmental protest - its causes and consequences - and the challenges of organizing to confront government and big business are the focus of this book, which brings to life the …