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

Cajun South Louisiana

...ca. 1900. Postcard book by Jean S. Kiesel. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana, ca. 1880–1897. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy...

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

...Black woman's catching fifteen opossums in Muscogee County, Georgia, in 1877.31"Foraging on our Exchanges," The LaGrange (GA) Reporter, Oct. 11, 1877, 2, https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015287/1877-10-11/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=10%2F11%2F1877&city=LaGrange&date2=10%2F11%2F1877&words=&searchType=advanced&nottext=&index=2&sequence=0&proxdistance=5&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=&andtext=&page=1. Enslavers may have tolerated—and on occasion, celebrated—antebellum...

Palomares Bajo

...found out the hard way.11Szulc, 14, 19, 21, 43, 101, 116-7, 119-23, 145. About press censorship, Szulc notes that beyond the constant US no-comment, "on certain days newspapermen were kept...

The Bulletin—November 15, 2012

...his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta." Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in...