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

Our Backward Revolution

...Port Royal Experiment: Rehearsal for Reconstruction. Rose tells the remarkable story of enslaved and subsequently free Black people living on the South Carolina Sea Islands who gained their freedom—and small...

Looking Back to Move Forward

...relic, but as a system. The Code Noir, adopted in 1724, governed every aspect of enslaved life—movement, religion, punishment, reproduction—while prohibiting property ownership, interracial relationships and freedom.2"Transcription of 'The Code...