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Do you think Blight's comparison of post-Civil War writers (Grant, Tourgee, Page, etc.) is an accurate reflection of the competing ideas of the war and the South in the public sphere during the time of their publications? And what about Tourgee's idea regarding the "forgetting" of the war? Obviously people hadn't forgotten about it, so what did he mean by this thought?- Victoria Y. | Do you think Blight's comparison of post-Civil War writers (Grant, Tourgee, Page, etc.) is an accurate reflection of the competing ideas of the war and the South in the public sphere during the time of their publications? And what about Tourgee's idea regarding the "forgetting" of the war? Obviously people hadn't forgotten about it, so what did he mean by this thought?- Victoria Y. | ||
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| + | Tourgee's argument about how the American people had "gone so far that there was even a tendency to forget altogether the fact that a war could not be waged for the preservation of the union unless someone was responsible for the attempt to destroy it" brings up a big point against reconciliation, and the popular acceptance of southern literature. Should the US, specifically the union have put more effort into remembering the specific causes of the war like Touragee argued, or was it better for the nation overall to embrace the reconciliationist view like it did. -AJ L. | ||
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| + | When Blight talks about Siebert and his research into the underground railroad he mentions the seeming belief of the people who had been a part of the underground, or who's ancestors had, that they had "permanently destroyed slavery and its related problems". Did this belief, or similar ones among other northerners, contribute to the lack of effort in fighting against jim crow laws? or was it more because they were tired of fighting at that point? - AJ L. | ||
