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Focusing on what President McKinley called ""the ties of singular intimacy"" linking the destinies of the United States and Cuba, Louis A. Perez examines the points at which they have made contact - politically, culturally, economically - and explores the dilemmas that have arisen.

From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions-in America and Sierra Leone-engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt.Iyunolu Folayan Osagie is a native of Sierra Leone, from where the Amistads cargo of slaves originated. She digs deeply into the Amistad story to show the historical and contemporary relevance of the incident and its subsequent trials. At the same time, she shows how the incident has contributed to the construction of national and cultural identity both in Africa and the African diasporo in America-though in intriguingly different ways.This pioneering work of comparative African and American cultural criticism shows how creative arts have both confirmed and fostered the significance of the Amistad revolt in contemporary racial discourse and in the collective memories of both countries.

Dalton, Georgia, dominates carpet production in the United States, manufacturing 70 percent of the domestic product. This study ranges over 50 years to detail the unique environment of co-operation and competition in Dalton that fostered the rise of homegrown industry.

This book explains what factors motivated the Highlanders to leave their native glens of Scotland for the pine barrens of Georgia. He considers how their distinctiveness and ""old world"" experience prepared them to play a vital role in the survival of Georgia in this early moment in its history.

From 1773 to 1777, naturalist William Bartram journeyed through the American South from the Carolinas to Florida to the Mississippi River. This guide reconstructs as closely as possible the original routes that Bartram took, supplemented with maps, photographs and sidebars.

An analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving and transcending pain and suffering. Gregory Orr draws on an array of sources, from Keats, Dickinson and Whitman to three-thousand-year-old Egyptian poems, Inuit songs, and Japanese love poems.

Investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washington's military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to America. Don Higginbotham then explores the legacy of Washington's success.

A history of the University of Georgia that celebrates the bicentennial of the school's founding with a richly varied account of people and events. More than an institutional history, The University of Georgia is a contribution to the understanding of the course and development of higher education in the American South.

Probing at the very core of the American political consciousness from the colonial period through the early republic, this thorough and unprecedented study by Larry E. Tise suggests that American proslavery thought, far from being an invention of the slave-holding South, had its origins in the crucible of conservative New England.

Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery. Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the twentieth century.

In this groundbreaking volume, Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas bring together a comprehensive and widely representative selection of poetry reflecting both the diversity and commodity of male experience in the United States today.

Celebrates and preserves the venerable Gullah culture of the sea islands of the South Carolina and Georgia coast. Entering into communities long isolated from the world by a blazing sun and salt marshes, Patricia Jones-Jackson describes folkways and beliefs that have endured for more than two hundred years.

A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social customs, and material culture.

Shows how the American public's perceptions of the South have been influenced, even controlled, by the mass communications media. In this updated edition, Kirby surveys major movies, radio and television shows, plays, popular histories, and music from the turn of the century to the 1980s.

Preserving an engaging, little-known slice of American life, The Dark Side of Hopkinsville is a collection of ten picaresque tales bearing witness to a black child's life in a southern town at the turn of the century. Hauke has annotated the stories with recollections of the author's family and friends, who are often major characters.

From the turn of the century until her death in 1947, Lugenia Burns Hope worked to promote black equality in Atlanta, and on a national level in her discussions with such leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois. Highlighting the life of the zealous reformer, Jacqueline Anne Rouse offers a portrait of a tireless woman who worked to build the future of her race.

Recounts the struggle to reshape the post-Civil War society of the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina, the Confederacy's last outlet to the sea. Focusing on events in the port city of Wilmington and its rural environs, William McKee Evans ranges in time from the region's occupation by Union forces in 1865 to the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

Provides the first history of the relationship between the US and Haiti to be published since the 1940s. Utilizing a wealth of Haitian sources as well as the voluminous state papers, the book also benefits from methodological and conceptual advances in diplomatic history over the past half-century.

Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped conventional portrayals, this book reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval world - from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints.

Offers a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters - including seven discovered since the book's original appearance - reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke.

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the experience.

First published in 1958 and selected by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year, Willie Mae is a first-person account of a black woman's life and her experiences as a domestic worker in a succession of southern households in the first half of the twnetieth century.

Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources - census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony - to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods.

The enduring fame of Joel Harris as a skillful storyteller had its beginning with the publication of the first of his enchanting Uncle Remus stories. These and other local colour tales were written to sound as if they were being told to a group of small children on a winter night beside a blazing fireplace of a middle Georgia farmhouse.

Illustrated with forty-one songs from the original songbook, The Sacred Harp is a comprehensive account of a unique form of folk music. Buell Cobb's study encompasses the history of the songbook itself, an analysis of the music, and an intimate portrait of the singers who have kept alive a truly American tradition.

A master of the complexities of language, Molly Giles writes of the missed connections in life and of the rough translations that we employ when we try to convey, through words and gestures, what we are thinking and what we want from our loved ones.