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== Eva Jones to Mary Jones, her mother-in-law, 1865 == | == Eva Jones to Mary Jones, her mother-in-law, 1865 == | ||
| + | The imagery Eva employed to discuss the experiences of the Confederacy in the postwar period seem to me to be quite liberally applied; her portrayal of the South's struggles in the wake of the war as "little feeble sickly attempts of virtue... [where] we [are] the chained witnesses" (266) by the "robbery and...unwise policy" (266) of the abolishment of slavery. It seems far-fetched to me that someone could actually conceptualize themselves as the victims in such a clearly false way, but it speaks to the culture and history of the South that it really was seen as the North coming in and robbing the good, hardworking whites of the South of their "property." It's amazing that that a cultural divide could be so wide that this sort of worldview could actually be an honestly-held one. -- Nicole | ||
== Accounts of former slaves, 1865-1937 == | == Accounts of former slaves, 1865-1937 == | ||
