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

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...

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....

Sowing The Seed Underground

Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...N. Rampart Street. Top center, 4812 N. Rampart Street near Jourdan Avenue. Top right, 1005–1007 Jourdan Avenue. Bottom left, 1009 Jourdan Avenue near N. Rampart Street. Bottom right, 715 Jourdan...