... Shirley Darden Darden family Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s childhood stories of slavery ...

... These are notes for a story about a woman who brought captured runaway slaves to her house, tortured them, and then resold them. Years later, after the house is burned down, Grandma Rye comes and puts the tormented spirits there to rest. Bob Moses Mariah Grant (Grandma Rye) slavery...

... a slave, and Rosemarie felt lucky to hear her stories—even though they were often difficult—since her own grandparents had passed away before she was born. Shirley Darden Darden family Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s childhood stories of slavery ...

... This chapter analyzes John Marrant’s use of structural elements from the Exodus story to illustrate supernatural resistance to enslavers. The Exodus motif was also espoused by David Margrette, a fellow minister in the Huntingdon Connexion, who preached in Savannah, Georgia. Marrant’s...

... Chapter 5 analyzes the stories of buried treasure and skeletons that the author argues residents put together to make sense of the rapid changes in their lives and in their neighborhood’s landscape. These treasure tales revolve around slavery and the value of history, suggesting the ways...

... This chapter adds the Indian Ocean to studies of the slavery. It complicates postapartheid portrayals of the origins of South African Indians by comparing indenture with the enslavement of Indians in the Cape and the indenture of the indigenous Khoikhoi some one hundred years earlier. I...

... to trace post-1695 legacies of Palmares. Part V, “Deaths and Rebirths,” traces the story of Palmares into the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Brazil African diaspora marronage slavery reparations Afro-Latino American studies ...

... This chapter focuses on the history and folklore around marronage that has shaped and continues to shape Black communities in Montgomery County. From surviving tales of legendary escapes from slavery to continued ways of life, Black freedom still takes place as marronage. This chapter draws...

..., which purports to detect and establish ancestral bloodline linkages between dislocated Afro-Atlantic test takers and indigenous peoples in specific African countries. It traces the story of William Holland, a Black American who is connected genetically to various groups of people in West Africa, and who...

... and their descendants born after abolition and follow them through the first two decades of the post-emancipation period. This chapter makes use of oral sources to reconstruct the stories of families and communities and their memories of slavery and freedom. post-emancipation trajectories family memory...

... and sovereign forms of power over black life under slavery by looking at advertisements for runaway slaves and the census, as well as a set of rules from the 1800s for the management of slaves on an East Texas plantation. Drawing on novelist Caryl Phillips’s short story “The Cargo Rap,” visual artist Robin...

...South This chapter explores three central values within black religion and culture: hospitality, healing practices, and ghosts/spirit stories. It looks at each topic individually and tells of experiences Rosemarie, her family members, and movement colleagues have had regarding each one. Her...

... circles of protection around all who need it. Rosemarie’s mother, Mama Freeney, asserted that there were many “Harriet Tubmans” during slavery—women who helped their families and friends escape to freedom. protection Howard Thurman attunement Harriet Tubman escape from slavery Describes...

... Both the headnotes and the glossary entries in this collection are indebted to sources that deserve acknowledgment and that may themselves interest students of the war. Where particular stories are intriguing, it may also help to know whose research provides a likely place to begin further study...

...1861 Both the headnotes and the glossary entries in this collection are indebted to sources that deserve acknowledgment and that may themselves interest students of the war. Where particular stories are intriguing, it may also help to know whose research provides a likely place to begin further...

... Both the headnotes and the glossary entries in this collection are indebted to sources that deserve acknowledgment and that may themselves interest students of the war. Where particular stories are intriguing, it may also help to know whose research provides a likely place to begin further study...

... Chapter 2 tells the story of data's movement from regional importance to national importance in the mid-nineteenth century through the labors of white women. This chapter uncovers the work of several groups of white women who acted as weather data collectors and meteorological calculators...

... Both the headnotes and the glossary entries in this collection are indebted to sources that deserve acknowledgment and that may themselves interest students of the war. Where particular stories are intriguing, it may also help to know whose research provides a likely place to begin further study...

... Both the headnotes and the glossary entries in this collection are indebted to sources that deserve acknowledgment and that may themselves interest students of the war. Where particular stories are intriguing, it may also help to know whose research provides a likely place to begin further study...

... decades of military rule. With her characteristic irreverent humor and occasional profanity, Leite narrates her adolescence and political awakening against a backdrop of massive social upheaval as Brazil grappled with the legacies not only of dictatorship and state violence, but also of slavery...