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

The Liminal Site

...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...potential consequences of the sweeping revolutions in France and nearby Haiti. Meeting of White Men and Indians, General Oglethorpe meeting Creek Nation. Print originally published in John Lossing's An Outline...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...of Presbyterians who kept hallooing and whooping without Door like Indians." He calls them "Ignorant, mean, worthless, beggarly Irish Presbyterians, the Scum of the Earth, and Refuse of Mankind."5Woodmason, 17,...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...