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

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...known for its illusory 3D effect. Titled "Unloading a Cotton Steamboat, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A." (ca. 1890), the stereograph portrays several black men serving as stevedores on the New Orleans docks.3This stereograph is...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...the 2014 Callaloo Conference, we have invited distinguished intellectuals and artists to help us return to subjects that we, at our inaugural meeting in New Orleans in March 2008, partially...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...one at a time, to a foundation square of fabric, then pressed back over the seam, building the pattern outward from the center. Log Cabin quilts can be made from...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...mayor who bought the ladies' favors with river quartz, maybe east from some trip west to see or returning north from New Orleans or just lost in those years after...

Artist Repertoire Index

...You Do It? Jody Man Keep That Cat Man From My House Mama, I Can Lay It Ragtime Love Simon Joe Someday Baby Step It Up and Go Stop Time...

Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces

...Environments and Ecologies Indigenous Souths Queer Souths Reading and Writing Souths Religion Social Memory and Memorialization Southern Screens Southern Spaces will update our educational resources as we publish new scholarship,...