Cultural Issues: Slavery Nostalgia
Description
When black characters, especially ones who had been enslaved, seem nostalgic for the institution of slavery. Simon in Flags in the Dust is probably the most obvious instance of this. SR
Parent Term
Sibling Terms
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- Abolition
- African origins
- Amelioration
- And progress
- As cause of Civil War
- Biblical analogy
- Biblical curse
- Big house vs quarters
- Buying slaves
- Civil War
- Commodity
- Concubinage
- Courtship
- Curse
- Demographics
- Discipline
- Domestic labor
- Emancipation
- Etiquette
- Evil
- Family
- Field slaves vs house slaves
- Forced migration
- Freedom
- Fugitive
- Galley slave
- Growth of
- Guilt
- Housing
- Humiliation
- Imported
- Indian slave-owners
- Interracial violence
- Labor
- Legacy after emancipation
- Local origins
- Loyalty
- Manumission
- Marriage
- Metaphorical
- Middle passage
- Minstrelsy
- Miscegenation
- Music
- Naming slaves
- Ownership
- Persistence over time
- Purchase
- Quarters
- Racialism
- Re-arrangements during War
- Re-enslavement
- Religion
- Resistance
- Revolt
- Segregation of space
- Self-emancipation
- Sex
- Slave trading
- Slaves vs masters
- Slaves vs poor whites
- Social value
- Southern curse
- Traditions
- Transhistorical
- Violence
- White anxiety
Tagged Events
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon
Cultural Issues: Age›Growing old | Class›Declasse | Modernity›Speed | Slavery›Nostalgia | War›Return from war
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Car | Supernatural›Ghost
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth | Movement›Carriage
Themes and Motifs: Past›Past vs present
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect
Actions: Bodily›Childbirth