"Carried to the Swamp": Race, Place, and Geographies of Infant Death in the Post-Emancipation American South.
This article examines infant abandonment, death, and burial in the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American South, predominantly in South Carolina. It investigates the physical and imaginary geographies associated with infant death, exploring how southerners navigated local landscapes t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 29 - 46 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Fall2025
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