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

The Black Belt

...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...

Remnants of Flannery

...Chronicles, largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...reprint ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). I had met Thomas in New Orleans for the first time a few weeks before the ceremony. I had asked her then what slavery...