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

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...entice curious northerners and reassure anxious southerners. Postcards from other cities similarly promoted their slave markets as tourist attractions, often with as conflicting historical and imaginary meanings as those of...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the prairie districts. South Louisiana joined other parts of the South in embracing slavery and southern rights in the 1850s. The Civil War brought increased outside influence in the bayous...