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

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...the Appalachian Trail preparing to cross US 23 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Contractor spreading mulch at the new Visitor Center on I-26 East, looking at Dale and...

Piedmont Blues

...sake of clarity, this essay defines the Piedmont blues region as spanning from Danville, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, running approximately 325 miles from northeast to southwest and being seventy-five to...

Failed Memory Exercise

...And turned east, clattering toward the cotton gin, And returned empty, and faded beyond the track. Beyond those yards, where one day the sallow Dozers rolled and skinned back the...

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

...important for several reasons. It demonstrates that the narrative embroidered by "Ruth Middleton" is very likely to be accurate, or at least highly plausible. This undertaking helps us understand how,...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...compulsion to expand American territory. He made this portion of the southeast into "Jacksonland," beginning his lifelong project of turning Indian homelands into US possessions. John Ross to Andrew Jackson,...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...