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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...Zion–Female Union Band Society Cemetery Many District of Columbia residents have incorrectly assumed that Mount Zion Cemetery is composed of a single burial ground. A three-acre property, it actually consists...

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...1942, Dorothy Helen Middleton purchased two burial plots—one for her mother and one for herself—at Mount Lawn in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Mount Lawn cemetery records indicate that she never used...