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

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...for remaining practitioners of country blues, they did not search the Lower Chattahoochee. In 1967, George Mitchell conducted field research in Mississippi, locating such blues musicians as Joe Callicott, who...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...by sea, the systematic loading and unloading of cargoes depended upon a stable and sizable portside workforce, whether Egyptian laborers in Alexandria stowing sacks of grain bound for fourth-century Rome...