After Slavery: Race, Labour and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas
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Grant Holder:
Dr Brian Kelly
This project aims to demonstrate the utility of a materialist interpretive framework for exploring some of the most contentious issues in US Southern, labour and African-American history. In a vibrant, crowded field that has produced some of the most stimulating work of the past generation, historical scholarship stands at the threshold of a critical transformation. After Slavery will address some of the most fundamental problems in American history, and in the process reassert the utility of a labor- and class-centred framework for grasping the key features in the evolution of the post-emancipation South.
| Project start date: 2005-09 | Project end date: 2010-09 |
Subject domains:
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| Methods used | Category |
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| 2d Scanning and photography | Data capture |
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| text | Content types |
| history | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Humanities Council of South Carolina
Content types created:
Dataset/structured data, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Source material used:
Sources culled mainly from archival collections in the United States, including online photo archives, magazines and periodicals, government records and private manuscript collections.
Digital resource created:
After Slavery website (in progress) aims to develop a critical learning environment constructed around major themes in the history of the post-emancipation South, with an emphasis on race, labor and politics. This will include a collection of documents and images, annotated bibliographies, databases, podcasts and audio files, and an Online Classroom geared toward upper-level secondary school and university level students.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Royal Holloway |
| Queen's University Belfast |
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| undefined |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Brian Kelly, Dr Bruce Baker, Dr Susan O'Donovan |
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| Other staff: | PhD student(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Brian Kelly |
| Title | After Slavery: Race, Labour and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas |
| Record created | 2008-08-20 |
| Record updated | 2010-07-13 12:16 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2258 |
| Citation of record | Brian Kelly: After Slavery: Race, Labour and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2258> created: 2008-08-20, last updated 2010-07-13 12:16 |