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Violet Cragg's request for an army pension almost reads like a biography. It seems like they requested very personal details of her life. I would be curious to read whether a white former nurse would be questioned the same way. -Kendall Haring | Violet Cragg's request for an army pension almost reads like a biography. It seems like they requested very personal details of her life. I would be curious to read whether a white former nurse would be questioned the same way. -Kendall Haring | ||
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| + | I'd also like to comment on Violet Cragg's army pension request, and I'm actually kind of surprised not many others have commented on it! (besides Kendall above me) I'm amazed how much information Violet spewed out to get a pension. Like Kendall said, it was like reading a mini-biography. What I find interesting about it, is not only how much information she had to give in order to request a pension, but also how much detail historians are given about life as a slave woman in the antebellum south. Her one testimonial follows her from master to master and explains interracial relationships as well as slave and master relationships. It's a very rich document to have, but I can't help but ask the same question - was this much information required of everyone? I know we discussed in class that once granted a pension the government intervened in your life on a regular basis, so was this much of a biography really the norm? - Kelly Wuyscik | ||
When I read the Castaneda essay, it angered me that historians in the past stereotyped Mexican women as immoral and sexually and racially impure simply because they did not live under the norms of middle class white women - pure, pious, domestic, and submissive. It was also unfortunate in both Castaneda's essay as well as in the anonymous letter to the editor of the Beacon that Native women in the West were viewed as objects of sexual conquest by white soldiers and settlers. - Marilyn | When I read the Castaneda essay, it angered me that historians in the past stereotyped Mexican women as immoral and sexually and racially impure simply because they did not live under the norms of middle class white women - pure, pious, domestic, and submissive. It was also unfortunate in both Castaneda's essay as well as in the anonymous letter to the editor of the Beacon that Native women in the West were viewed as objects of sexual conquest by white soldiers and settlers. - Marilyn | ||
