Geography and Needlework in the American South: An Interview with Emily Wells

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English - October 28, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB
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In this episode, Isabella interviews PhD student Emily Wells about her research on the geography education of elite girls in the pre-Civil War American South. The two discuss map samplers, Westtown globes, and the involvement of southern needleworking girls in the region's slavocracy.

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