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

The Black Belt

...Coast port of Mobile. Stereograph of African Americans in a cotton field in Montgomery, Alabama, ca. 1860. Photograph by J.H. Holtzclaw. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from the American Society of Theatre Research; Jeff...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...Gazette-Mail (WV), April 12, 1994; "All About Business," Charleston Daily Mail (WV), April 26, 1994. Utility companies recognized the importance of obtaining quality coal as cheaply as possible. For example, American...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...capacity and expansion. See Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982), Charles Maier, Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern...