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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...

Palomares Bajo

...were thoroughly othered, marked as "racially different." Their "miserable and abandoned hamlet" was contradictorily said to be "inhabited by dark-skinned gypsies and by descendants of the Moor[s]," a coded reference...