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

Reckoning with Enslavement

...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...haunted a whole generation of people, especially those who became activists in the Freedom Struggle. Darryl Mace's In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...