Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Postcards, Tar Heelia on September 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The monument to the Confederate dead on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, commonly known as Silent Sam, was the site of protest yesterday. Leaders of the Real Silent Sam movement seek to draw attention to the monuments and buildings on campus that honor people and ideals that they consider non-representative of today’s students and their views. [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged christina snyder, slavery in indian country, tomasee on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“The [white settlers'] 1776 retaliatory expedition against the Cherokees illustrates the increasingly racial tone of border warfare…. “At Tomasee [in what is now northeast Georgia], where General Williamson’s troops surrounded a group of Cherokee warriors, some engaged in hand-to-hand combat. During one intense fight, a North Carolina bruiser… placed his long thumbnails on either side [...]
