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

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...

Single Centers of Creation?

...this biogeographical idea; perhaps it is not as simple and straightforward as we thought. Species originate from one place, they disperse, migrate, branch into new species, some die off ....

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...

Baton Rouge, Louisiana images

...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge.   Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...

Just as Sure

...Covered farms, drowned a tree or two. They bought all the land on that new shore. And you know, things gon keep changing as sure as fools make decisions with...

Off-Season

...we returned to what we both knew and belonged to. The off-season only an off-shoot in what we were meant to be. You never did know this part of what...