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

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...for Photography, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, The Light Factory’s 4th Juried Annuale in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the University of Maine Museum of Art Photo National 2011 where...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Bey. Within the full context of Elegy, viewers can understand the impact of this scene. The slow march from the Manchester docks, from Virginia through the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama to...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...

The Dirt Eaters

Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...homes where Mother's Day dinners cooled while the locals watched the smoke agitate the north Alabama sky, and Janey Miller, the twelve year old with a well bucket and a...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...Ansley, Fran and Anne Lewis. "Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee." Southern Spaces, May 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/going-south-coming-north-migration-and-union-organizing-morristown-tennessee. Auslander, Mark. "The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery...

Local Color

...usually been explained as a passing fancy of national taste, whereby audiences particularly in northern urban locations indulged their curiosity about the out-of-the-way, quaint, disappearing, ways of life associated with...