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

Religion and the US South

...habitation. As the South became a predominantly biracial society in the nineteenth century, the coming together of the religions of western Europe and western Africa provided the essential background for...

Deep Ellum Blues

...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...free women of color formed a benevolent organization, the Female Union Band Society (FUBS). A decade later and for $250, they engaged Joseph T. Mason—schoolteacher and free man of color—to...