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

The Border South

...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...

Encountering COVID

...up on July 31. I knew that on August 1 I would have no house, no spouse, no job, and no kids to take care of. And the big critical...

Cajun South Louisiana

...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...