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

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...Winding Path to Freedom under the District of Columbia Emancipation Act of April 16, 1862," Washington History 26, no. 2 (2014): 18–22. The complex relationships between enslaved and free persons of color...

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...