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

The Chesapeake Bay

...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Welcome!

...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database.   While the...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...

Putting up Beans

...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...

#209, Long Meter

...active here.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010 © 2010 Laurie Kay Sommers and Southern Spaces...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...who gave to the leaves of one yew the names of his own dead. Anyway the only spirits I can call in this place are the stench of a possum...