Category: plantation tradition

+ hal jacobs, lillian e smith, lillian smith: breaking the silence, michael twitty, oak alley, plantation tradition, southern literature, southern studies, the old south, whitney plantation

“The Plantation System in Southern Life” and Plantation Tourism

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In his documentary, Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence, Hal Jacobs uses numerous historical clips. One that stood out to me, though, was a clip, which he showed three sections of, from a ten minute Coronet film entitled “The Plantation System in Southern Life” from 1950. The film presents the South as an idyllic destination, one full of nostalgia and agrarianism, a soothing balm against … Read More “The Plantation System in Southern Life” and Plantation Tourism

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+ african american literature, american literature, charles chesnutt, conjure tales, dave's neckliss, early american literature, plantation tradition, southern literature, the conjure woman

Charles Chesnutt’s “Dave’s Neckliss” and the Psychological Effects of Slavery

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I have written about the ways that texts illuminate the psychological effects of slavery and Jim Crow segregation on both the minds of white and blacks alike. Today, I want to take a moment and look at one of Charles W. Chesnutt’s conjure tales that foregrounds the psychological effects of slavery and Jim Crow from the outset. “Dave’s Neckliss” originally appeared in the Atlantic … Read More Charles Chesnutt’s “Dave’s Neckliss” and the Psychological Effects of Slavery

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