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

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

...Opossum Farm," Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, OH), Dec. 19, 1889, 4, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028296/1889-12-19/ed-1/seq-4/. John Rand's ranch in Louisiana, in 1892;55"State News," St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA), May 7, 1892, 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1892-05-07/ed-1/seq-1/. an...

Religion and the US South

...justify slavery, as part of their defense against abolitionist criticism. One strain of the proslavery argument saw southern society as the last bulwark against an inhumane industrial order that had...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...to Congressman John Lewis. Mace is not the first to suggest this, but the point bears repeating. In Remembrance of Emmett Till is structured around newspaper and magazine coverage of...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...Author and artist Robert C. Adams" depicts a stockade surrounding one building and omits all other structures known to have been part of the post (guard house, storage houses, stables,...