Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

Health Care as a Avenue of Change in the South Doctoring Freedom explores the ways in which African Americans “creatively asserted themselves as independent, discerning, and deserving patients (5), resisting the efforts of slaveholders to exert complete control over their bodies a...

The Southern Historical Collection and Civil War and Reconstruction History: A Past and a Future

Paper on how Southern Historical Collection has "advanced the study of the South but not always in the manner [J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, its founder] had in mind." Materials gathered to support Hamilton's historical perspective remain vital to the posing of new questions about the Civil War and Reconstruction South. Presented at Southern Sources: A Symposium Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of the Southern Historical Collection, 18-19 March 2005 in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“There is No Silence in the Archive, There are Silencers” : Thavolia Glymph in Conversation about Gerda Lerner with Levke Harders

This text is an edited version of a video conversation recorded on 2 June 2022.This text is an edited version of a video conversation recorded on 2 June 2022

The second middle passage: The transition from slavery to freedom at Davis Bend, Mississippi

This study looks at the transition from slavery to freedom at Davis\u27 Bend, Mississippi. It is concerned with the process by which one group of slaves became free men and women, the ways in which they defined freedom and how their definitions were shaped by their experience as slaves, by war-time and postwar policies emanating from different federal agencies and by the environment of postwar racial restrictions and proscription. It focuses, in particular, on former slaves of Joseph E. Davis, a Mississippi planter and large slaveholder known in his region for embracing paternalism as a model for slave management and seeks in part to show how paternalism could shape the ideas of slaves about freedom. Its findings support historical studies that view planter paternalism as a negotiating ground between slaves and masters and that see land ownership as an important component of former slaves\u27 definition of freedom. When they did not receive portions of their former owners\u27 lands, many former slaves turned to an ideology of self-segregation, self-help and economic development in the arena of all-black communities