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

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...nabs under her belt 500 gallon vats--peanut butter stink so strong the smell lasts a lifetime and more crackers flying by ‘bout ninety miles per pull and pack ten thirty,...

History: The Parlor

...Compared with the Evins estate, the household inventory of Mary's maternal grandparents is much less detailed, but nonetheless revealing. When Silas Benson died in 1875, the officials conducting the inventory...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials 1871–1872 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996); Nicholas Lemann, Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (New York: Farrar, Straus and...