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

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

Advertisement announcing reward for runaway slave, Wilmington Advertiser, May 24, 1839. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and North...

Besieged Terrain

Review When most people consider beautiful landscapes that are worthy of saving in the southern Appalachian Mountains, they think of tall, cascading waterfalls, high, open ridges, and grasslands with dramatic...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

  The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those...

Sweep

...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...