Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Provided/Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when ...
In The Quarters and the Fields, Damian Pargas provides a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, he compares the ...
South Carolina’s history is complex and enduring. From its role in the transatlantic slave trade to today’s heated debates over immigration policy, the state’s past continues to shape its politics and ...