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

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...

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...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...

At Cornwall Furnace

...more. Promises of love and forevers mural its inside above constellations of beer cans and glass, ashes. The lid of sky's diameter remains the same. In water only yards away,...

In the Magic City

...iron, like stars that draw from the dark as they spin     Maubilla and Horseshoe Bend the way Elvin works the cymbals     into distant crowds. And when it ends...

Putting up Beans

...dirt wasps. Slightly rubbery, slightly sweet enough bushel baskets to put away winter hunger for about another year. I remember the first time I canned in the barns, tobacco barn...