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

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...March 2015 drone footage, documentary videographer Steve Bransford edited the short video presented here. It begins by orienting viewers to the location of St. Catherines, and then travels smoothly across...

Birth Right

...a woman to give birth to a child at home; however, it is illegal to have a midwife assisting at this home birth. Some expectant mothers from Alabama travel to...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...this interminable momentum by offering the perspective of thousands of enslaved persons who traveled along the trail from the middle passage into bondage. Entirely in black and white, “350,000” is...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...on slave narratives, travelers' accounts, planters' records, newspapers, and former slaves' post-emancipation testimonies in an attempt to access and recreate the impacts of market and masterly forces that compelled slaves...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...the nineteenth century to track and account for the whereabouts of enslaved African Americans traveling without their owners. The image also includes a nineteenth-century form of photography called the stereograph,...

Palomares Bajo

...as they were made to travel 250 miles to Madrid every year for examinations. Proving again, as city slicker Szulc surveyed it, that "all roads seem to lead away from...

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...