Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
Mandeville Thum, Mouth of the Cave, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, 1876–1877. Introduction Geologically, Mammoth Cave is a network of underground caverns in central Kentucky believed to be the world’s largest cave system. Understanding Mammoth Cave as a social and political space, however, means grappling with its singular place in the history of American slavery. During the […]