University of South Carolina. He is currently revising his manuscript entitled love and marriage, domestic relations and matrimonial strategies among the slaves and atlantic world. That intrigues me to no end. His Research Examines the degree to which diaspora africans and their americanborn dissidence reimagined their marital rights in the americas. Utilizing methods from legal, political and cultural history, he began his analysis in Atlantic Africa and traces the struggle of african descended people throughout the british, west indies, bermuda in north america for fighting for marital equality. His research has taken him throughout black atlanta, or bermuda, jamaica, england, scotland, lucky guy. He has received crucial funding from various institutions including harvard, duke, university of South Carolina, Florida International university. He has published articles and book chapters on its slave marriage rituals and africanamerican popular culture. In addition to his manuscript rev
Carl elliott came through. He was many things. He was a president. He was a congressman from 1948 until 1964. Carl elliott was born very poor in northwest alabama. At the depths of the depression, he came to the university with two dollars . 60 and his property and a 25 check he had been given. When he arrived and presented himself to the president and said you said anybody could come here, the president looked at his finances and said not you. Nightt out and spent the under a truck. They found him the next day and took him back to the president and the president said if you wanted that badly, we will find a way for you to get an education. President of the student body and got a law degree. The first of his family to receive a college degree. He actually ran for accounting judgeship and lost. In 1948, he ran against the fourtime incumbent congressman and defeated the fourtime incumbent congressman. He began his congressional career. Very few members of the house of representatives eve