Search Results for: Civil War

Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

May 18, 2018May 22, 2018 Sasha Turner Civil War, landownership, slavery

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names

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The Historical Roots of Blues Music

May 9, 2018May 15, 2018 Lamont Pearley Sr. Great Migration, Mississippi, music, slavery

Contrary to what some people believe, the blues is not “slave music.” Although it was cultivated by the descendants of slaves,

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Performance Traditions and the “Mardi Gras Indians” in New Orleans

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Matthew Teutsch African Diaspora, New Orleans, religion, slave trade

Countless theories surround the history of the “Mardi Gras Indians,” Black organizations in New Orleans that don suits inspired by

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W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter education, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du

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An Unseen Light: A New Book on the Black Freedom Struggle in Memphis

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Civil Rights Movement, culture, Gender, Memphis, religion, Resistance, Social Movements, South

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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