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

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

...of Virginia Press, 1991), cover, 8. As for what to call the site and how to present it publicly, plaza markers contradict each other (Figures 39–40). The predominantly white St. Augustine...

Good-Bye to All That?

...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Light minister, Samuel Davies of Virginia. Sent as a missionary to the Cherokees in October 1758, Richardson was out of his depth and had no success whatever in the assignment....

Unquiet Emmett Till

Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...compose the broader section of the nation known as the South, as this study of South Carolina’s coastal parishes illustrates. Each one—from the Virginia Tidewater and the Florida Keys to...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...