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Freedom Seekers
Examines the experiences of runaway slaves in North America, conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct 'spaces of freedom'.
Freedom's Crescent
A sweeping history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and its central role in abolishing slavery in the American South.
Gruesome Looking Objects
This original and provocative study uses objects-made, collected, and imagined-to examine lynching and racial terror.
A New Plantation World
Examines the creation of 'sporting plantations' in the South Carolina lowcountry during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
Carolina's Golden Fields
"The basis for this book began twenty years ago when I enrolled in the College of Charleston's summer archaeological field school. After spending the first half of the semester honing our technique by digging five-foot by five-foot units, identifying soil stratigraphy, and collecting artifacts at the Charleston Museum's Stono Plantation, the archaeologists reoriented us students to a new site. For the remainder of the field school we investigated Willtown Bluff on the Edisto River, an early-eighteenth century township surrounded by plantations. My interest in inland rice cultivation grew from our work at the James Stobo site, a 1710 plantation located on the edge of the Willtown township and...
Rice
Rice is a first step toward a history of rice and its place in capitalism from global and comparative perspectives.
Old Age and American Slavery
This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US.
Country Capitalism
The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region’s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms—Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America—to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives, and other records, Elmore explores the historical, economic, and ecological conditions that gave rise to these five trailblazing corporations. He then considers what each has bec...
