The author writes, "Few presidents have put in longer days, worked harder, or endured greater strain. A government official who called on him early in 1863 observed that he looked 'worn and haggard' and that 'his hand trembled' when he wrote" (Gienapp 128)
In fact, the work Paradise Lost can be read as a political allegory, where thematic elements within the epic are "aligned with aspects of the political context of the poem's creation" (Roberts 1). In this political allegory, the characters are in a political situation, as "he saw the events of the Christian myth he was retelling as paradigms or archetypes for the daily events of the Civil War" (Forsyth 63)
Milton's powerful representation of Satan in Paradise Lost is another powerful political tie to the English Civil War. Through this character, Milton is exposing the "fear of change / Perplexes Monarchs" (Milton I
The English Civil War was a major influence in a number of literary and artistic works made during this period. The beginning stages of the conflict lasted between1642-1651 (Roberts 1)
Throughout the work, Satin is one of the primary political figures. Here, the research suggests that "Milton responded to and consciously or unconsciously reproduced these entangled aspects of war in his portrayal of the war in heaven" (Summers & Pebworth 235)
They have high ranks in law enforcement agencies as well. They have managed to break the glass ceiling by moving up the ladder in the corporate world (Barnes, Davis, & Rogers, 2006)
This strong social development in terms of better understanding sex roles occurred because females of the past dared to take a step in the right direction. They may have faced pain and despair, but in the end, they emerged victoriously (Gonzalez-Ruibal, 2007)
Kennedy to give basic human and civil rights to them and other racially suppressed ranks of the American society. "The Weeping Woman" is created by Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso in 1937 on the canvas using the oil painting technique, depicted a historical, social reality that involved the suppression and killing of women and children during the Spanish civil war (Picasso, 1937)
Barton was a nurse during the war, who at first simply stockpiled medical supplies and food that she knew the soldiers would need, and later took her supplies into the field where they were most needed. One historian wrote of her right after the war ended, "Her devotion to her work has been remarkable, and her organizing abilities are unsurpassed among her own sex and equaled by very few among the other" (Brockett and Bellows 132)
Grant's Army of the Tennessee. She fought at Vicksburg and other notable battles, and one of her biographers notes, "A comrade later recalled that 'in handling a musket in battle, he was the equal of any in the company'" (Dumene B03)
She was successful because the Union men did not expect a woman to be a spy, and because she understood how to deal with men and to play up to their male pride while obtaining the secret information she wanted. One historian notes, "With the element of surprise as her weapon, Belle succeeded in securing and transmitting information so valuable to Confederate troops that Stonewall Jackson commissioned her a captain and made her an honorary aide-de-camp" (Faust 215)
She continually crossed Confederate lines to treat civilians. She was taken prisoner in 1864 by Confederate troops and imprisoned in Richmond for four months until she was exchanged, with two dozen other Union doctors, for 17 Confederate surgeons (Johnson)
"Debt peonage remained a central element of the black farmworker experience up to the 1970s, gradually diminishing in the 1980s, and to some degree continuing up until the present." (Rothenberg 171) Progress would have occurred much faster if individuals in the South actually abandon their racist preconceptions along with the idea of slavery
Yes, the slaves had been freed, but southern businesses and politicians wanted to control those freed people and keep them in the labor force at as low a pay scale as possible. How could the government tolerate this quasi-slavery policy? According to Douglas Blackmon, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution did abolish slavery but it allowed "involuntary servitude" as punishment when a black man was accused of a crime (Blackmon, 2013)
" "Involuntary servitude, slavery under a different name, built a large part of Atlanta," said Professor Richard Becherer of the Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, whose research on indentured servants brought in a different aspect of post Civil-War dynamics. During Reconstruction most freed slaves that lived in Southern cities worked as "unskilled laboring jobs or as domestic servants" (Campbell, et al
" The father of these children, Watts Cramer, is not mentioned in terms of how much he will be paid, but since his daughters are basically working for an education and technically learning a trade, that could have been considered payment enough from Mathias. Domestic Servants after the Reconstruction -- Indentured? Rich McKay writes in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that following the Civil War, an African-American male would be arrested in Atlanta for "…being outside after sunset," or speaking too loudly or "looking at a white woman in 'the wrong way'" (McKay, 2011)
What were the legal principles that government the employment of indentured servants? There were "competing models" on the rule of law as regards capitalist labor contracts. In the south, a culture existed even after Reconstruction that had "diluted the sanctity of contract and the right to security without establishing the right to quit" (Schmidt, 1998)
Many of Horwitz's descriptions sound as if they could be stereotypes, (such as "Tony Cool"), and another writer notes, "And, like it or not, many Americans accept that the trailer-park-trash types are usually Southern. It is an extremely unfortunate stereotype, but it exists" (Begone)
Re-enactors say they participate for a number of reasons. One man said, "We do this sort of thing most weekends anyway,' said a lean rebel with gunpowder smudges on his face and the felicitous name of Troy Cool" (Horwitz 7)
Civil War Confederates in the Attic Tony Horwitz's book "Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War," tells a tale that still plagues the South today, and many other writers concur with his view. As one writer states, "Even at 13 I understood there was something very different about the way that people in the North and in the South view the war" (Rider)