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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

...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...bill. Illustration by Adrian Kinloch. Courtesy of Adrian Kinloch, steveinskeep.com/the-john-ross-20-bill/. The best aspect of Inskeep's book may be its title—or rather the idea of America and the South implied by...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...essay is adapted from Wood's Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. Copyright 2009 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu....

Reckoning with Enslavement

...and Princeton Seminary and Slavery: A Report of the Historical Audit Committee (slavery.ptsem.edu/full-report). Also see Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities,...