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Kentucky and Tennessee emerged as slave states, while free states Ohio, Indiana (1816) and Illinois (1818) gained admission along the river’s northern banks. Borderland negotiations and accommodations along the Ohio River fostered a distinctive kind of white supremacy, as laws tried to keep blacks out of the West entirely.
4 maj 2016 · Phillips says regional biases stretching back to the Civil War remain in the border region, with Kentucky and Missouri schools boasting mascots with war-borne, cultural names such as Rebels, Cavaliers and Colonels.
The Ohio River Valley became an early fault line in the coming sectional struggle. Kentucky and Tennessee emerged as slave states, while free states Ohio, Indiana (1816), and Illinois (1818) gained admission along the river’s northern banks.
This introductory article to the special issue Writing at Borders suggests that cul-tural studies and the humanist point of view have significant explanatory potential concerning various...
29 cze 2022 · Over 50 migrants died in an abandoned lorry on a highway in Texas - the worst case of migrant deaths due to smuggling in the US. These trends have been ongoing for several years, and show no sign...
Borderland negotiations and accommodations along the Ohio River fostered a distinctive kind of white supremacy, as laws tried to keep blacks out of the West entirely. Ohio’s so-called “Black Laws,” of 1803 foreshadowed the exclusionary cultures of Indiana, Illinois, and several subsequent states of the Old Northwest and later, the Far West.
Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a ‘migrant crisis’ and a ‘welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation.
