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

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...their benefit the power of a market in workers that would have otherwise reduced their families to tatters. Public Sale of Valuable Negroes, Middleburg, Virginia, November 18, 1847. Advertisement commissioned...

Brushes with War

...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...

Residues of Border Control

...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...