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

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...Cemetery for ceremonies and speeches. Fort Walker and Rifle Pit Confederate Colonel Lemuel P. Grant designed over ten and half miles of earthwork fortifications and connecting trenches that encircled Atlanta...

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...

Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts

...number of studies have suggested, many early minstrel performers expended considerable effort attempting to imitate the fiddle/banjo performances of black southerners, and these imitations were incorporated into the minstrel show—albeit...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...of ex-slaves in what was to become the United States.6See Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995); and...