"Our domestic trials with Freedmen and Others": A White South Carolinian's diary of African-American "Exhibitions of Freedom", 1865-80

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Jacob Schirmer, a German American, commenced a journal, 'Our Domestic Trials with Freedman and Others', following the Civil War, in which he recorded his dealings with domestic workers in the free labor system. Schirmer struggled with the transition from slavery to freedom and the journal documents not only Schemer's reaction to the revolutionary social changes of the era but also tells the ways in which African Americans responded to their newfound freedom and their determination to maintain that freedom.

Analysis, Authors, Writers, Slavery, Racism, Our Domestic Trials with Freedman and Others (Diary), Schirmer, Jacob

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Cavaliers and crackers, Tara and tobacco road: The myth of a two-class white South

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A myth was created throughout American history that the antebellum white South consisted of only two classes, aristocratic planters on one extreme and debased poor whites on the other. Throughout American history, southern social historians have attempted to dispel the myth of a two-class white South by bringing in the 'plain', 'middle' or 'middling' white in southern history but these efforts were in vain.

Gone with the Wind (Novel), Lamb in His Bosom (Book), Miller, Caroline, Sociopolitical literature, The Mind of the South (Book), Cash, Wilbur Joseph, Mitchell, Margaret

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Locating the global south: Faulkner and Wright in postwar Asia

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In the literary work of The Ugly American, William J. Lederer illustrated the U.S. foreign policy in Asia. The anti-communist bonding of the African-American Davis and the Vietnamese Apache in this literature ends with the physical mutilation and symbolic castration of each man, one denuded of his voice and the other of his eyes.

International politics, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Foreign policy, The Ugly American (Book), Lederer, William J.

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