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

Besieged Terrain

...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...

A City Divided

...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...buying and deporting enslaved Africans. This initial mix proved fatal, both literally and figuratively. Within a generation, the West African rice growing skills documented by such scholars as Daniel Littlefield,...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...one of its recommended automobile tours and not feel so much as three minutes behind the times. Antique Shops, Royal Street, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Nationwide the...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...information—not a diary or journal or letter, not even a mention of them in anything but official records like deeds, probate files, and court minutes. Many of the gravestones they...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...