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

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...southeast of the present-day town of Allendale. The will of Robert Martin stipulates that his house on Charlotte Street, its furniture, and "house servants" will remain in the custody of...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...gulls overhead trailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare— all the way to Ship Island. What we see first is the fort, its roof of grass a lee— half reminder of the...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...economic opportunities in this persistently poor and distressed region. To understand what the poor are up against in Appalachia, you must understand mountaintop removal (MTR), the latest and most extreme...