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

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...Freedom Ride asks, "What color is an immigrant?" Use a colon after formal introductory phrases such as thus or the following, or for quotations longer than a sentence. As for...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Courtesy of Steve Bransford. Buck dancing was popularized in America by minstrel performers in the nineteenth century. The International Encyclopedia of Dance explains, "The old-style African-American buck dance consists essentially...

The Black Belt

...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...novel. For a powerfully written and argued history of the role of violence and force in the abolitionist movement, read Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the...