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

The Black Belt

...which over half the population is Negro" lying "in a crescent from Virginia to Texas." With decades of steady out-migration from the South, the Black Belt also came to mean...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

...such nights, because old as I am I'll still do what they refuse to, and soon I'm driving out of Marshall headed north, most often toward Shelton Laurel, toward some...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...dealt frankly with slavery and race. All across the country, the commissions and other organizations have been working to acknowledge the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, determined to do...