ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White Supremacy, Miscegenation, Dazzle Camouflage
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Tell all the truth can be understood as a comment on all her poems, and how to read them writes conflict into her poems through the multiple ambiguities that contradict each other and offer several interpretations. Pudd"nhead wilson: racial politics and cold indifference, historical displacement (takes place pre-civil war, pres. Aka samuel langhorn clemens apprentice to a printer and worked in brother"s print shop travels to st. louis, ny, cincinnati, etc slavery was legal in missouri, but the state was not part of the. 1863 army and navy can free slaves as they take terr. in civil war did not apply to states that were not rebelling. 13th amendment 1865 then reconstruction era abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime transformation of s. states after civil war to adapt to cultural and social changes from the end of slavery and devastation of the war. It maintains slavery. tragic flaw fall from greatness.