Mapping Souths
...points up the illegitimacy of southern secession. (Frederick Law Olmsted employs an identical logic in The Cotton Kingdom of the same year, claiming that "an arbitrary political line may divide...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...portrait of the nineteenth century intellectual giant and his era. Douglass's early years and later family life are chronicled, along with a meticulous account of his public presence and evolving...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...to play it? Jim Bunkley: Did you say how old was I? Mitchell: Yeah. Jim Bunkley: About, oh, I was about eight or nine, eight years old. Something like that....