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Independence, Slavery, And Freedom: Southern Women’S Thoughts During The Civil War, Bethany Susan Harper
Independence, Slavery, And Freedom: Southern Women’S Thoughts During The Civil War, Bethany Susan Harper
Masters Theses
This study explores the complex relationship between southern women and their ideas of independence and freedom during the Civil War years. In addition, this study seeks to investigate how southern women’s attitudes regarding slavery changed from 1861-1865. With their husbands, brothers, and fathers serving in the war, southern women were forced to become the sole white authority figures on their estates. This reality shift made them come to understand just how dependent their independence was on slavery. Southern women believed that independence could only come to the Confederacy, and it was inconceivable to have a simultaneous future where the Confederacy …
Mason & Dixon: History And Identity In The Borderlands, Drew Leventhal
Mason & Dixon: History And Identity In The Borderlands, Drew Leventhal
Masters Theses
My project, Mason & Dixon, traces the footsteps of the original surveyors of the Mason-Dixon Line and their search for purpose in the borderlands between Pennsylvania and Maryland. For the past 250 years, the Line has inscribed a violent and painful scar on the land, filled with memories and (re)written histories. Holding the legacies of slavery and colonial expansion deep in its soil, the region is now a visceral example of the ongoing divisions and conflicts around the past, the present, and the future of the United States. The friction is in the air, it is in the monuments, and …