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...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...blacks, left little written evidence. Most of her sources derive from the Deep South. She draws heavily on interviews of former slaves and folklore. As many historians have pointed out,...
Bunk Richardson
...weaker, all night long. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
At Cornwall Furnace
...rise. Flawless architecture of a monument. Silent, we heft the pig and give it back. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published:...
In the Magic City
...groove the night again. Published in Murder Ballads (2005). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Gone With the Wind
...anymore. Published in Southern Quarterly 45.1 (Fall 2007): 53-54. Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 7 March 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
At Liberty (1964)
...ever again. Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April 2008 © 2008 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Darkly
for Dave Smith The moss never falls. However gray, it hangs like shirts left to weather and rag over the road and the dead-end rail and in all the branches...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
Bluets, larkspur, common violets in the jimson and queen-anne's-lace, tangles of boxwood and honeysuckle and smilax in hydrangea and pine, thick from which Spring Azures drift, among the first to...
Anniversary
...us a wake returning to comfort the water and then the shore. "Anniversary" has not been published before. Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...