HUMAN 1B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Emancipation Proclamation, Alan Dershowitz, Jim Crow Laws
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Historical contingency: history is not a progress of events; it depends on what happened before: civil war. South was threatening the north for a long time. If south never seceded, he would probably have not had this. If south never seceded, slaves might never have been emancipated. Changed the proclamation about colonization because more slaves. Chattel slavery: slaves are treated as actual property escaped to the north. Contraband: slaves were contrabands of war, relates to chattel slavery, when they"re fugitives, they are lost property. Sentimental domesticity: soldiers being sentimental about their home life, idealization of the home life and women so they have somewhere to go after the war, after all the killing, separation between home and work. Home is place for release of all the stress from work: role of women during war. Maintain ideal home for men to fantasize about post-war.
