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

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...respect for Mr. Richardson's memory would justify. The circumstances of Mr. Richardson's death became more and more public, various tales and unfounded suspicions grew into greater consistency as they passed...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...nineteenth-century sources brought home to me just how unhealthy it had been.” In turn, he brings that realization home vividly to his readers. He puts “hospital” back into the traditional...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...of the past," hoping to claim admiration and votes. Cultivating Race ends abruptly but significantly, analyzing legal cases and opinions of the influential, mid-nineteenth century Georgia Supreme Court justice Joseph...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...