Tony Horwitz's book, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, travels throughout old Confederacy to examine these deep-seated effects of the Civil War in contemporary society. ... " The quiz bowl between the Children of the Confederacy affirms that the manic ardor to keep the memory of Civil War alive is prevalent not only among adults but also among children: "It was an impressive display of rote learning and reminded me [the author] of my own childhood passion for Civil War trivia, though this was a level of fine print I'd never reached&q...

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As a result of these Publications, Chesnutt recognized in American literary history as the first African American author to receive high critical acclaim. ... As a contemporary of Douglass, Chesnutt presents the reader with a portrait of the abolitionist based mainly on Douglass" three autobiographies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) and other available materials of his day. ...

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Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. This taboo of a topic found itself well-versed throughout the country in many publications. Its authorship included Frederick Douglass...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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Prince and her female contemporaries - many of whom also wrote slave narratives - used their voices to promote change and question the tenet England's civilized. ... Rauwerda insists they rob Prince of her authorial agency ("Naming- 398). ...

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One such example is Mark Krug, author of The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. His primary arguments were "based on Lincoln's expression of hatred for slavery and on the judgment of contemporaries that moral conviction sustained the emancipation edict." ...

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