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

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

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...

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....

Antietam

...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...

Geography

...of blackberry, the coins flattened on the tracks. We can’t help it— already, we’re leaning too hard toward metaphor: my father searching for the railroad switch. It was here, right...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, two folkies found you in the singing vinyl and asked, "How do you do that with a guitar?" and searched maps of Mississippi for the...