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== Mary Boykin Chestnut’s diary, 1861 ==
 
== Mary Boykin Chestnut’s diary, 1861 ==
 
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Mary Chesnut, a woman of very high social standing, smoked opium? “It enables me to retain every particle of mind or sense or brains I ever have, & so quiets my nerves that I can calmly reason & take rational views of things otherwise maddening.” (pg 221) She was very clear why she used the drug, but these statements made me curious about the popularity of opium. Did her friends use it too? Was it expensive or hard to obtain? Was there any social stigma against it?  –Allison Luthern
 
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== Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941. ==
 
== Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941. ==

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