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

Deep Ellum Blues

...soon after the war, and settled in a variety of 'Freedmantowns' around the city. One of these Freedmantowns remained in the far north of the city in my own childhood...

Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina

...under water. At fourteen feet the river would be in town. At nineteen feet there would be extensive flooding and costly repairs.          Our niece Jody arrives at the house. She’s...