Sew What?

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


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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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