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

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-det-4a19873. "I Just Liked to Be in that Number": The Longshoremen Remember The transformative impact of...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...of a nationwide protest against the practice, organized by the National Afro-American Council in 1899.1Rev. D. A. Graham, "Some Facts About Southern Lynching," Indianapolis Recorder, June 10, 1899, reprinted on...

Deep Ellum Blues

...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v.  Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...

Cajun South Louisiana

...ca. 1900. Postcard book by Jean S. Kiesel. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana, ca. 1880–1897. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...it begins with composer Joel Pickard's opening number: acoustic guitar with cello underneath when the camera pans over family photo albums and helps viewers understand the chronology they're about to...

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909), 177, quoted in Len Gougeon, Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990), 33. Henry L....