Texas Runaway Slave Digital Project - Final Report to the Summerlee Foundation

The SFASU Foundation, on behalf of the East Texas Research Center (ETRC), Ralph W. Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), was awarded a Summerlee Foundation grant to research slavery in Texas through the lens of newspaper advertisements, articles and capture notices for runaway slaves. A $10,000 grant from the Summerlee Foundation supported the project. The ETRC hired six student assistants for 780 hours of digital research. The students looked at newspaper issues from 1835-1865 in the collection of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. The researchers reviewed 62.5 percent (4,735) of the available content, found 1,116 records and input their findings into a Microsoft Excel database. This research was then organized and added to the Texas Runaway Slave Project (TRSP) website, which is part of the ETRC’s publicly available digital archives. All the records found by the student assistants are now online. At present the TRSP documents 1,285 runaway slaves from Texas in 1,058 advertisements, articles and capture notices. Google Analytics data shows that students, scholars and genealogists worldwide are using the project research

Portraits of Freedom Opening Reception and Art Exhibition Grant Report for Humanities Texas

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, on behalf of the East Texas Research Center (ETRC), Ralph W. Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), was awarded a Humanities Texas mini-grant to provide programming for the opening reception of the Portraits of Freedom art exhibition, June 11, 2015. A $1,000 grant from Humanities Texas paid the honoraria for two guest speakers, Dr. Douglas Chambers from the University of Southern Mississippi and Dr. Daina Berry from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Chambers spoke about runaway slaves in the Atlantic World and Dr. Berry about Juneteenth and the Civil War in Texas. Eighty-three people attended the opening reception and survey results showed a very positive response to the evening. Portraits of Freedom is a juried student art exhibition featuring runaway slaves from newspaper advertisements compiled by the Texas Runaway Slave Project (TRSP). The exhibition features drawings, lithographs, paintings, and screen prints created by art students at SFA, Texas Christian University (TCU) and Lamar University (Lamar). Interpretative panels contextualize the art. The exhibit opened June 13th for the 26th annual Texas Blueberry Festival and closed September 25th. The exhibition had 605 visitors

Neutron stars from young nearby associations the origin of RXJ1605.3+3249

Many neutron stars (NSs) and runaway stars apparently come from the same regions on the sky. This suggests that they share the same birth places, namely associations and clusters of young massive stars. To identify NS birth places, we attempt to and NS-runaway pairs that could be former companions that were disrupted in a supernova (SN). The remains of recent (<few Myr) nearby (< 150 pc) SNe should still be identifiable by observing the emission of rare radioisotopes such as 26Al and 60Fe that can also be used as additional indicators to confirm a possible SN event. We investigated the origin of the isolated NS RXJ1605.3+3249 and found that it was probably born ~100 pc far from Earth 0.45 Myr ago in the extended Corona-Australis or Octans associations, or in Sco OB4 ~1 kpc 3.5 Myr ago. A SN in Octans is supported by the identification of one to two possible former companions the runaway stars HIP 68228 and HIP 89394, as well as the appearance of a feature in the gamma ray emission from 26Al decay at the predicted SN place. Both, the progenitor masses estimated by comparison with theoretical 26Al yields as well as derived from the life time of the progenitor star, are found to be ~11MSun.Comment: accepted for publication in PASA, special volume Astronomy with Radioactivities; 10 pages, 4 figures, 5 table

Masterful women: Colonial women slaveholders in the urban low country

When Abraham Minis, merchant and tavern keeper, of Savannah, Georgia sat down to draw up his last will and testament he faced a heart-wrenching dilemma: how would he successfully provide for all of his eight children and also ensure that his beloved wife Abigail would have enough to live out the rest of her days in widowhood in comfort? Three years later, in spring 1757, Abraham died. When his will was read, there were thankfully no surprises for Abigail and their children – Abraham had followed Low Country custom regarding the division of family wealth. He gave his three sons his horses and mares and left five daughters all of his black cattle. It was Abigail, he explained, who was to inherit “all the rest of my Estate both real and personal” to be “enjoyed by her” so that she would be able to “maintain educate and bring up our children.” He sealed his love, approval, and trust in his wife's abilities to meet this request by nominating her his sole executrix. Any help that she might need when settling the affairs of his estate, he observed, would be provided by his loyal friends Joseph Phillips and Benjamin Sheftall, who would assist and advise her

Preacher\u27s Magazine Volume 36 Number 09

Cover — E. E. Martin The Role of the Relay Runner, EditorialThe Preaching of E. E. Martin, James McGraw Christ’s Way for Our Day, Lloyd B. Byron The Call to Holiness, Robert L. Rodgers Gleanings from the Greek New Testament, Ralph Earle The Pastor’s Service to the Full-Time Evangelist, Gene E. Phillips How to Keep the Prayer Meeting Vital, Vera Clay Invertebrated, Morris Chalfant “Queen of the Parsonage,” Ruth Vaughn Odd Moments and How to Use Them, E. E. Wordsworth Not Come to Destroy Men’s Lives, but to Save Them, B. V. Seals The Bread-breaking Love Feast, F. A. Brunson The Runaway Sunday School, Everette L. Cattell Sermon Workshop, Nelson G. Mink Book Briefshttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/1410/thumbnail.jp

XMM-Newton observation of PSR B2224+65 and its jet

We have investigated the pulsar PSR B2224+65 and its X-ray jet with XMM-Newton. Apart from the long X-ray jet which is almost perpendicular to the direction of proper motion, a putative extended feature at the pulsar position, which oriented in the opposite direction of the proper motion, is also suggested by this deep X-ray imaging. Non-detection of any coherent X-ray pulsation disfavors the magnetospheric origin of the X-rays observed from the position of PSR B2224+65 and hence suggest that the interpretation of pulsar wind nebula is more viable. We have also probed the origin of PSR B2224+65 and identified a runaway star, which possibly originated from the Cygnus OB9 association, as a candidate for the former binary companion of the neutron star's progenitor.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Ap

Preacher\u27s Magazine Volume 36 Number 09

Cover — E. E. Martin The Role of the Relay Runner, EditorialThe Preaching of E. E. Martin, James McGraw Christ’s Way for Our Day, Lloyd B. Byron The Call to Holiness, Robert L. Rodgers Gleanings from the Greek New Testament, Ralph Earle The Pastor’s Service to the Full-Time Evangelist, Gene E. Phillips How to Keep the Prayer Meeting Vital, Vera Clay Invertebrated, Morris Chalfant “Queen of the Parsonage,” Ruth Vaughn Odd Moments and How to Use Them, E. E. Wordsworth Not Come to Destroy Men’s Lives, but to Save Them, B. V. Seals The Bread-breaking Love Feast, F. A. Brunson The Runaway Sunday School, Everette L. Cattell Sermon Workshop, Nelson G. Mink Book Briefshttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/1410/thumbnail.jp