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

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...

Congregation

...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...change was long overdue: the uprooting of segregation (though not the racial face of poverty), with its "colored only" drinking fountains, restrooms, streetcar seating, and other vestiges of separate-but-hardly-equal affronts...