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

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...

Bricking the Church

...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church"  from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...is one of the most striking images from What Must Be Remembered in its visual representation of the lived experience of the international slave trade and its depiction of slavery as...

Palomares Bajo

...found out the hard way.11Szulc, 14, 19, 21, 43, 101, 116-7, 119-23, 145. About press censorship, Szulc notes that beyond the constant US no-comment, "on certain days newspapermen were kept...

Residues of Border Control

...made. –Sophie Gee, Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth Century Imagination, p. 17 The photographs are a means of making “real” (or “more real”) matters that the privileged or the...