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

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database.   While the...