The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
The Change
...it floods my memory. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
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...
Southern SpacesΒ Recommends
...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...
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...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...Beverly-Jean Daniel, "Teaching while Black: racial dynamics, evaluations, and the role of White females in the Canadian academy in carrying the racism torch," Race, Ethnicity, and Education 22, no. 1...
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...
"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...