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

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...to the Digital Yoknapatawpha Project. The project is still in development so any overview I provide now has to be provisional. The project continues to expand, often in ways that...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database.   While the...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....

Palomares Bajo

...99. The New York Times Madrid correspondent, Tad Szulc, eventually motored down to Palomares, retreading some tired city clichés along the way. Can't get there from here. Cut off. "Best...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...