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

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...several mutually antagonistic groups into the Waxhaw congregation, and he established and ministered at times to some twelve other churches in the region. It was his death, however, that most...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...a relatively short time, suggesting that Nancy Miller Benson chose not to take this as an opportunity to display fine handwork. She may have only had a short time to...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...

Besieged Terrain

...Almost all the big timber companies operating in the southern states at the time were northern. Having cut the forests in the northeast, they were looking for virgin stands. With...