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

Brushes with War

...disappeared into the attic of a wealthy New Jersey family whose daughter gave her life in an effort to educate freed slaves on South Carolina's Sea Islands during the so-called...

Quilting Conversation

...Marquetta Johnson Marquetta Johnson, fourth-generation quilter and textile artist, discusses how her quilting techniques have developed over a lifetime, and how she uses her creativity to inspire new generations of...

Leavenworth newspaper

Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...

When the Border Crossed Me

...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...

Rent

...that had already been let go. Privet crowded the porch, and a wall bowed into the parlor—abandoned honey swollen inside it, the plaster crazed. We would share that house with...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....