Cultural Issues: Slavery Ownership
Description
For moments in the texts where owning slaves is evoked as a marker of status or wealth, as when Jason Compson connects his family pride to the fact that his ancestors owned slaves. SR
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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
- Nostalgia
- 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
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Expensive and/or fancy clothes | Slavery›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Actions: Bodily›Smoking | Verbal›Conversation
Cultural Issues: Ethnicity›Native American | Race›Racial consciousness | Race›Racial identity | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Slave trading
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering passim | Naming›Change over time | Naming›Indian name
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Diction›Racist term
Environment: Natural›Wilderness
Actions: Legal›Record keeping
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Objects›Iron box | Texts›Civic records
Environment: Place›Plantation | Place›Sawmill
Cultural Issues: Cultural Identity›Savagism | History›Indian Removal | Race›Miscegenation | Race›Native American stereotype | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Steam locomotive
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Vanishing Indian | Chaos/Order›Wildness | Character›Persistence | Exile›Indian Removal | Past›Past in present | Time›Future
Relationships: Interracial›Indian-white
Aesthetics: Narrative›Parentheses
Cultural Issues: Age›Old age | Agriculture›Market gardening | Clothes›Handbag | Clothes›Shabby | Gender›Lady's accoutrements | Law›Execution | Slavery›Family | Slavery›Legacy after emancipation | Slavery›Ownership
Relationships: Interracial›Companions
Environment: Atmospheric›Stillness | Time of Day›Noon
Cultural Issues: Food›Cannibalism | Global›Exoticism | Labor›Menial | Race›Stereotype cannibalism | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Quarters | Slavery›Slave trading
Cultural Issues: Slavery›African origins | Slavery›Indian slave-owners | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Recurring Tropes›Design
Aesthetics: Figures of Speech›People compared to animals
Actions: Mental›Logically reasoning | Moral›Rationalization
Themes and Motifs: Character›Innocence | Morals›Injustice | Recurring Tropes›Design | Values›Conscience
Aesthetics: Allusion, Mythical›Fate
Environment: Domestic Space›Garden | Place›Livery stable | Place›Plantation | Place›Slave Quarters | Place›Smokehouse
Actions: Bodily›Drinking | Economic›Borrowing | Emotional›Patience | Hunting›Deer hunting | Perceptual›Watching | Verbal›Rumor | Work›Building structure
Cultural Issues: Agriculture›Cotton | Alcohol›Drunkenness | Alcohol›Whiskey | Class›Respectability | Gender›Inversion | Gender›Masculinity | Group Mentality›Community collective | Progress›Clearing the land | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Deer | Animals›Dogs | Animals›Turkey | Chaos/Order | Meaning›Mystery | Money›Dowry | Money›Gold | Objects›Footprint | Recurring Tropes›Solitude | Recurring Tropes›Upward mobility
Relationships: Marital›Arrangements
Environment: Time of Day›Dinner
Actions: Communication›Writing
Aesthetics: Allusion, Biblical›Judgment Day | Interpretation
Actions: Communication›Writing | Domestic›Housekeeping | Physical›Building | Play›Poker
Relationships: Familial›Brother-brother
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Amelioration | Slavery›Discipline | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Purchase
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Buck and Buddy's experiment
Actions: Verbal›Arguing | Verbal›Interruption
Cultural Issues: Sexuality›Incest | Slavery›Freedom | Slavery›Miscegenation | Slavery›Ownership | Slavery›Southern curse
Themes and Motifs: Money›Inheritance | Recurring Tropes›Endurance
Relationships: Familial›Cousin-cousin | Familial›Descendants | Hierarchical›Master-slave
Cultural Issues: Identity, Cultural›Heritage | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Community›Local legends | Inheritance›Property | Money›Inheritance
Aesthetics: Recurring Episodes›Negro voting
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Cultural Issues: Slavery›Domestic labor | Slavery›Ownership
Environment: Domestic Space›House
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure
Relationships: Familial›Father-son | Marital›Husband-wife
Actions: Agricultural›Planting
Cultural Issues: Land-Use›Cotton farming | Law›Frontier justice | Progress›Frontier to civilization | Slavery›Ownership
Themes and Motifs: Exile›Dispossession
Aesthetics: Allusion, Historical›Hare | Narrative›Parentheses | Typography/Orthography›Dash
Environment: Domestic Space›Log house
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Dogs | Arrivals/Departures›Arrival | Time›Continuity
Actions: Agricultural›Farming
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Headache | Health and Illness›Medicine aspirin | Health and Illness›Patent medicine | Progress›Roads | Sexuality›Promiscuity | Slavery›Ownership | Technology›Car
Themes and Motifs: Memory›Remembering | Values›Family honor
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son