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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...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...In keeping with the sentiments expressed in her collected essays, Mystery and Manners, O'Connor expects that her mother's hospitality will be received with gratitude and is disappointed (although not necessarily...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

..."catalyst [and] economic juggernaut for US development."1Pellom McDaniels III, interview with author, December 14, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. Detail of 19th-century passbook. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...morning gathering to hear original musical compositions. We hope that you will continue to visit with us for each of these activities and engage our presenters in what they offer...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...that Quamino is "marked with his Country Marks," or patterns of facial scarification that served as markers of ethnicity and identification.2Of course, physical markings cannot necessarily be correlated with ethnicity...

Residues of Border Control

...Sheet,"  (Washington, DC: National Immigration Forum, 2009). Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with contents, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010.   Susan Harbage Page, Garbage can with evidence bags, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010....