Dress, Social Death, and the Limits of Control

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Okay, you may be wondering about the result of some of the other research from this semester. Digital History was the one I posted about the most, but it wasn’t the only history course I took this semester. My other class, Hist 444: American Slavery, was a much more analogue course. When I wasn’t in my room or the HCC working on the Digital history project, I was in the library working on this one. Some of this is rehashing what I’ve already said in a previous blog post, but I felt it was important background for the paper that follows. Now, the paper that is included here is not as robust as I would have liked it to be, I will admit that. I do plan to continue to work on this paper, expanding it through additional research and discussion with professors and peers about what can improve. I also would like to include images to better illustrate points about the fabrics, shapes, and customization of dress during this period where needed. I am proud of what I have produced, so here it is:

Watercolor depicting black people dancing in white clothing. Captioned "Lynchburg - Negro Dance, August 18th, 1853".

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