01:790:376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Reality, Emerging Markets, Proletariat
26 Apr 2018
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Conclusion: no secure civilization can be built in the south with the negro as an ignorant, turbulent proletariat. 3: veil as metaphor for black experience (present, importance of music as expression of african american experience (sorrow. Songs: freedom vs. not-slavery , today, reflections on history that led to current situation, economic, political, social realities in south, vision of education (recall i sit with shakespeare ) Powerful economic forces shape life in post-civil war south (chs. 7-9): slavery of debt takes place of chattel slavery, the landlords deserted their plantations, and the reign of the merchant began. The merchant of the black belt is a curious institution part banker, part landlord, part contractor, and part despot. (ch. 8: in those vast stretches of land beyond the telegraph and the newspaper the spirit of the thirteenth amendment is sadly broken. (ch. 8: letter vs. spirit of amendment, personification of debt: debt sits staring at him (ch.
