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

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...once-natural landscape with images of how human activity has altered that landscape. Bertolaet's drawings and texts, hand-written in white ink on the photographs black margins, are variously wry, poignant, and...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...American history. She was born one month after the ill-fated mass escape of enslaved people on the schooner The Pearl, the largest attempted self-liberation event in antebellum US history. She...