When The Enslaved Went South
In the four decades before the Civil War, an estimated several thousand enslaved people escaped from the south-central United States to Mexico. Some received help—from free Black people, ship captains, Mexicans, Germans, preachers, mail riders, and, according to one...
Discrimination And Prejudice
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race. Good analytical thinking requires that we do not...
News From Around the South 11/16 to 11/23
KENTUCKY: Committee Approves Resolution for Monument Relocation The Monument Relocation Committee’s final meeting ended with unanimous approval for a resolution including two recommendations for the new home of the Confederate Monument. Daviess County Fiscal Court...
Here We Go Again
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because the law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it...
Forsaken History: Charleston’s Neglected Racial Past
This story, seldom told, begins at a wharf reaching hungrily toward the sea. But not Gadsden’s Wharf or any that you’ve likely heard of. William Rhett’s wharf Source: Mapbox | Brandon Lockett | The Post and Courier Instead, it opens at Col. William Rhett’s wharf,...Obiter Dicta
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GEORGIA: Former Georgia Southern Professor Publishes Novel On Founding of Savannah Yamacraw Bluff, a historical novel charting the trials and tribulations of Savannah’s founders, is gaining attention in Amazon’s top Read More