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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

...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...

Palomares Bajo

...a no-contact policy with townsfolk, a formula for global speculation and local resentment. "Little heed to the outside world"? Little knowledge of Cold War geopolitics? "The whole subject ... an...

Brushes with War

...2: Our Special, 1864. Color lithograph by Winslow Homer. From Louis Prang & Company. SAAM guests were thrust into the Civil War exhibit space almost as abruptly as soldiers were...

Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins

Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...

Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations

...Bibler explores three frames: queer black fraternity, elite white planter homoeroticism, and “southern kitchen romance” Part 4: Bibler discusses the plantation and related literary social spaces and describes teaching his...