Antebellum South: Slavery, Cotton, and the Mississippi River Posted: March 22, 2025 | Last updated: March 22, 2025 The film discusses the historical context of slavery in Mississippi, beginning ...

Most recently, historians have moved beyond broad generalizations about the South as a whole to explore the regional variations that gave rise to distinctive forms of antebellum slavery.

Right away, we’re hit with a title card informing us of the story’s time and place: 1932, the Mississippi Delta, two ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery — went straight to the heart of the question ...

Set against the antebellum South, "The Birth of a Nation" follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher whose financially-strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an ...

as well as the role of Jews in the antebellum South, the extent to which they suffered from anti-semitism and the extent to which they believed in white supremacy and slavery. The patriarch ...

Like a slave escaped from a plantation in the antebellum South--only 150 years later--Tony Cohen tested his fate on the Underground Railroad. He began his odyssey at the Library of Congress ...

Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South and is one of the largest college fraternities nationally. In 1949, the Indiana ...

Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to ...