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Marriage And Other Trouble, Benjamin Buckingham
Marriage And Other Trouble, Benjamin Buckingham
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Marriage and Other Trouble is a collection of (mostly) realist short stories. These stories explore the dynamics of marriage and family, ranging from characters dating in their twenties, to remarrying in their sixties. The characters in this collection grapple with adultery, sexual identity, addiction, class, privilege, and illness. I am interested in the lasting impact of events. Therefore, these stories often reflect on the history of relationships and on how the events of these characters' lives will carry into the future. Mostly set in Florida, place plays an important role in these stories, providing both structure and conflict. The one …
Unlikely Partners: Collaboration Between Colonizationists And Radical Abolitionists In Washington County, Pennsylvania, During The 1830s, Joseph Andrew Smydo
Unlikely Partners: Collaboration Between Colonizationists And Radical Abolitionists In Washington County, Pennsylvania, During The 1830s, Joseph Andrew Smydo
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In the scholarly literature, colonizationists and radical abolitionists are portrayed as composing perpetually warring camps. While that may have been true at the state and national levels of the movements, the evidence suggests that the relationship between the groups was much more fluid at the grassroots. In Washington County, Pennsylvania, colonizationists and radical abolitionists cooperated on various community-development initiatives during the 1830s. Slavery was important to these community elites. But other issues were just as important to them, if not more.