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

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

Review From colonial founders' initial resistance to slavery to antebellum whites' embrace of it, Watson W. Jennison's Cultivating Race charts the first hundred years of Georgia's Anglo, African, and Native American...

Social Justice Environmentalism

Essay In a 2017 essay, National Museum of African American History and Culture director Lonnie Bunch noted that, like much of black history, environmental activism by people of color is...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...to Congressman John Lewis. Mace is not the first to suggest this, but the point bears repeating. In Remembrance of Emmett Till is structured around newspaper and magazine coverage of...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...