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

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...region is, in essence, the geographical center of the Deep South. There are a total of eighteen counties that lie within the nucleus of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley region—seven in...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...service to the United States with his personal financial interests. As military leader and federal treaty commissioner, Jackson opened millions of acres of Native American land to non-Indian settlement. Making...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...first census to record the names of all recently emancipated African Americans, records about sixty African Americans named Clifton in the state of South Carolina. The only white slave owning...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...frame and explored violence directed against racial and ethnic groups other than African Americans.2See William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (Charlottesville:...