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Cultural Issues: Crime Extortion

Parent Term

  • Crime

Sibling Terms

  • And race
  • Arson
  • Blackmail
  • Bootlegging
  • Breaking and entering
  • Bribe
  • Car theft
  • Cattle rustling
  • Commercial sexual exploitation
  • Drug addiction
  • Embezzlement
  • Forgery
  • Fratricide
  • Fraud
  • Gambling
  • Grave robbing
  • Horse theft
  • Innocence
  • Interruption
  • Kidnapping
  • Looting
  • Making whisky
  • Manslaughter
  • Moonshining
  • Murder
  • Numbers
  • Penalty for
  • Prevention
  • Prostitution
  • Racialized
  • Rape
  • Sedition
  • Theft|Robbery
  • Treason
  • Vagrancy
  • Vigilantism
  • Voter fraud
  • Waistcoat

Tagged Events

Flags in the Dust, 282 (Event)
Environment: Time of Day›Afternoon | Time of Year›October | Time of Year›Sunday
Actions: Economic›Indebtedness | Verbal›Shouting | Verbal›Threat
Cultural Issues: Clothes›Sunday clothes | Crime›Embezzlement | Crime›Extortion
Themes and Motifs: Objects›Coin
Aesthetics: Diction›African American vernacular dialect | Diction›Racist term | Genre Conventions›Minstrelsy
The Reivers , 281 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Despair
Cultural Issues: Crime›Extortion
Themes and Motifs: Money›Owed
Aesthetics: Narrative›Commentary | Narrative›Parentheses
The Reivers , 282 (Event)
Actions: Moral›Scheming | Moral›Stealing
Cultural Issues: Crime›Extortion
Themes and Motifs: Animals›Horses | Money›Owed
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation | Narrative›Parentheses