Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0198029195

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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day.

Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South
Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South

Author: James X. Corgan

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2014-06-15

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 081735798X

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Nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between 1796 and the 1850s. Each essay includes fascinating biographic sketches of the author, a bibliography, and an index.

Science, Race, and Religion in the American South
Science, Race, and Religion in the American South

Author: Lester D. Stephens

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780807825181

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In the decades before the Civil War, Charleston, South Carolina, enjoyed recognition as the center of scientific activity in the South. By 1850, only three other cities in the United States_Philadelphia, Boston, and New York_exceeded Charleston in natural