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

Writing Appalachia

...Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee (2006). In 1858, (West) Virginia artist and author David Hunter Strother confirmed this blend of backwoods and urbane, noting that in East Tennessee...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...Towns Belonging to the Cherrikee Nation," in Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley, eds., Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...cuts off the leg of a slave boy, and a slave woman sucks the cut-off leg. A Confederate soldier prepares for battle by sucking a slave woman's breast. A slave...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Hanson, Bradley. "The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee." Southern Spaces, November 20, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/tennessee-jamboree-local-radio-barn-dance-and-cultural-life-appalachian-east-tennessee. Matthews,...