Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...gender. As Hardwig notes, "Neither Murfree nor Chesnutt felt the need to obey the demands of a gendered and racialized sense of authenticity, but their readership and editors imposed it...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...moderate position. The Charlotte he governed had a Democratic majority city council and a business class that epitomized the state's "progressive" tradition. Once elected with a heavily Republican legislature, he...
The Change
...it floods my memory. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
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...
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
Introduction Peggy Winn had every reason to believe freedom meant stability for her family, stability in a new place. Under slavery, she had lived in the southern section of Albemarle...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...innovative new vehicle for scholarly communication. A fascinating and unpredictable journey through accidents and sagacity took us to what we needed. During the early 2000s, I was Director for Digital...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases have been reported from Texas (as illustrated in this map). The severity of the outbreak in and around Dallas, Texas has prompted the city to declare a state of...