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

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...drink no more bad whiskey.” Now in the August heat, it’s shift change. The whistle hangs in the stiff air. The lake stirs a moment, then is quiet. People slip...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...of segregation (228). Just as a statue of the Biblical prophet Moses is affixed on the dome of the Jackson, Mississippi, courthouse, the state's religious culture and legal racial apartheid...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...quilt made a statement about the family's social status. The Bensons could have purchased the chintz locally but it is quite possible that they demonstrated the importance of their eldest...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...of struggles to create a just and more democratic society. By establishing a political frontier and defining an adversary, they contribute to politicizing ecological issues. The climate movement must be...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...Union Band Society and Mount Zion Cemeteries. The old Methodist Burying Ground was purchased in 1808 by the Montgomery Street Church in Georgetown, one of the first Methodist churches in...