Susanna Ashton 7/1/24 Susanna Ashton 7/1/24

# 8: Black Names in the White Ledger. Susanna Ashton on Before the War and After the Union

Susanna Ashton 6/24/24 Susanna Ashton 6/24/24

# 7: “Just think of the crude asininity of even a great man!” …Thoughts On Renaming Clemson’s Honors College (musings about Reverend Alexander Crummell and John C. Calhoun)

Susanna Ashton 6/17/24 Susanna Ashton 6/17/24

# 6: The Most Astounding Runaway Advertisement I Have Ever Seen: part two of two

The self-styled munificent enslaver can be the most delusionally cruel.

Susanna Ashton 6/10/24 Susanna Ashton 6/10/24

# 5: The Most Astounding Runaway Advertisement I Have Ever Seen: part one of two

Who tries to escape with an 80-year-old companion?

Susanna Ashton 6/3/24 Susanna Ashton 6/3/24

# 4: A “Sherman Cutloose”

What was a “Sherman Cutloose” ? How did the term reflect a certain uneasiness some survivors of bondage felt about their status in the Post-Bellum era?

Susanna Ashton 5/27/24 Susanna Ashton 5/27/24

# 3: On Sanctuary (my remarks from the Audubon Society’s Beidler Forest at the opening of their freedom sites, originally delivered 9/16/23)

Susanna Ashton 5/20/24 Susanna Ashton 5/20/24

# 2: The Shakers’ Caveat or, the Muslin Manumission of George

When Shakers go shopping. Or, the Manumission of George

Susanna Ashton 5/13/24 Susanna Ashton 5/13/24

# 1: Go, Moses, Go!

Whatever Moses did, he really really pissed off his enslaver, T. J. Pickens

Susanna Ashton 5/28/19 Susanna Ashton 5/28/19

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