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

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

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...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...earlier that had taken his sight. He dazzled me with his will to learn to live sightless and a few mental tricks memorizing names and numbers. But what's emblazoned on...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...

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...