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

"Little Switzerland"

"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...

The Border South

...enslaved people (225,483) than Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, and the state contained more slaveholders than any other Southern state except Georgia and Virginia. The single largest slaveholding county in Kentucky,...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...the United States (2012–2014). She directs the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Many of her poems first appeared in various forms in Callaloo, a journal that for her serves...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...two graves cloud to one.   Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill and Southern Spaces...

The State House Aflame 1833

...agonizing solicitude. As he tears flaming shingles from the steep pitch white folks move official records, furniture, and money from under that roof to a safer place, safer than any...

Nigger Street 1937

...closing     red as the congregation     rises.   Published in Blood Ties and Brown Liquor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 27 February 2009 © 2009 Sean Hill...

Just as Sure

...Couldn't deny they shared faces. We buried Daddy in '53. They finished the dam, backed up the Oconee that year to make power. They made a lake, changed the town....

Little Rock, Arkansas images

...the twenty-four-story Bank of America Building (right background).   Lunch Hour Office workers walk along Little Rock's West Markham Street.   Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and...