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Podcast Audio File (38.0 MB)
Description
This podcast is about a special issue devoted to literature in Florida. Dr. Connie Lester, Editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly, interviewed Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, Associate Professor of History at Texas Christian University, about her article titled “The Servants and Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens and African American Life at Cross Creek.”
Narrator
Dr. Robert Cassanello
Interviewer
Dr. Connie Lester
Interviewee
Dr. Rebecca Sharpless
Date Created
Spring 2011
Keywords
Martha Mickens ; Cross Creek; Rural Womens History; Jim Crow South; Lack of Sources; Rawlings; "Reading against the grain"; Servitude; African American; Oral History; Folklore; Historiography
Length of Episode
17 minutes
Collection
Recommended Citation
N Robert Cassanello. “Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 09: Spring 2011,” Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast, podcast video, Spring 2011, [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/11]
B Cassanello, Robert. “Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast Episode 09: Spring 2011,” Florida Historical Quarterly Podcast, podcast video, Spring 2011, [http://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq-podcast/11]
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Introduction to Special Issue: This Incomperable Lande
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A Boy and His Fawn: Parallel Animals in A Trip to Florida for Health and Sport and The Yearling
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From Adventure Travel to Leisure Tourism: The Florida Letters of William Drysdale in the New York Times, 1884-1893
by Jesus Mendez
“The Most Exotic of Our Cities”: Race, Place, Writing, and George Allan England’s Key West
by Philip Levy
The Servants and Mrs. Rawlings: Martha Mickens and African American Life at Cross Creek
by Rebecca Sharpless