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

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...around Columbus. On weekends, he and his wife Cathy drove within a fifty-mile radius, and, to their great delight, learned that the area was filled with exceptional blues players. "Every...

The Black Belt

The Black Belt Traditional Counties of the Alabama Black Belt.  In the 1820s and 30s, the Black Belt identified a strip of rich, dark, cotton-growing dirt drawing immigrants primarily from...

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

...sign highlights Spanish colonial accounts, not African American history. Slaves were sold in and around the public market. While most slave sales in pre-Civil War St. Augustine took place at...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...