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

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...of" such spells, it is "as if [she] had just been born again," Hurston nonetheless was plagued at times with questions about how best to make sense of her inner...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...rod, the first for birth, second for life, and third for death in slavery — household slaves working for the important families of Georgia's old capital. When did the third...

Artist Repertoire Index

...early 1980’s) Baby, Please Come Back to Me (or Baby, Please Come Home to Me) Baby, Please Don’t Go Georgia Buck Hide-away I Can’t Stand to See You Go Long...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...Peeples quadrangle, South Carolina-Georgia [map]. First Edition 1943. 1:62,500. Reston, Va: United States Department of the Interior, USGS, 2016. As of this writing, there is no direct documentary proof that...