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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...

Inside Poor Monkey's

Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film.  His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...be "the president of all the people." But most of the people in this seventy-percent African American city demonstrated their solidarity by staying away. "McCain's policies unify us," said lawyer...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...the emboldened and blazing defender of all her sons and daughters." In Chicago, the Mother Jones Heritage Project is negotiating with the city to erect a statue of her downtown....

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic. "Miking" in Local Dialects Loudspeaker announcements broadcasting messages on vaccination in Cox's Bazar city, Bangladesh. Photograph courtesy of Abdullah Al Kafi. Playing health...