Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...a hairsbreadth of starvation. Alvin Jewett Johnson, "Johnson's Map of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, 1863," from Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...caused unusually high tides to flood marshes, roads, and other low-lying places on Sapelo, a phenomenon repeated there and along the rest of the Georgia coast in late October 2015....
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...socio-historical circumstances." Though Laitinen is one of many theorists who articulate a novel theory of religious encounter in the Caribbean, her scholar-practitioner identity is particularly concerned with "bridg[ing] the conceptual...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...so later I probably saw the same photograph again, this time as a spread in Life magazine, the only mail I eagerly awaited and poured over, admittedly just for the...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...portrait of the nineteenth century intellectual giant and his era. Douglass's early years and later family life are chronicled, along with a meticulous account of his public presence and evolving...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...spirituals, we was named the Blue Moon Gospel Singers. Well, and then after that we quit for a while and sooner or later started back, and it was the Bussey...
Geography
...won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection, Native Guard. Her latest work, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf, was released in 2010. Natasha serves as a...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Bessemer to support striking railroad workers in 1894, and a few years later, she took a job in a Tuscaloosa cotton mill to report on the wretched working conditions faced...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...a situation without stress for her. Writing in late 1938 to state FWP director Carita Doggett Corse, Hurston noted her personal battle with a "form of phobia," a crushing and...