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Introduction The Social Sciences and Southern History Stories of Enslavement: A Person-Centered Ethnography from an Eighteenth-Century Virginia Plantation by Rhys Isaac Texts, Texture, and Context: Toward an Ethnographic History of Slave Resistance by Charles Joyner Reading the Slave Body: Demeanor, Gesture, and African-American Culture by Shane White and Graham White Deadly Amusements: Spectacle Lynchings and Southern Whiteness, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale Who Were the Victims of Lynching? Evidence from Mississippi and South Carolina, 1881-1940 by Terence Finnegan Southern History through Life History Thomas Thistlewood Becomes a Creole by Trevor Burnard Doing God's Service: Adelbert Ames and Reconstruction in Mississippi by Warren A. Ellem Frank Cushing and W.E.B. Du Bois: Religion, Social Science, and Traveling South in the Late Nineteenth Century by Sam Elworthy Race, Gender, and Modernism: The Case of Lillian Smith by Bruce Clayton Labor in the New South Aspects of Modernization in the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 by John Salmond Coming into the Real World: Southern Textile Workers and the TWUA, 1945-1951 by Timothy J. Minchin Bibliographical Essay Index