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Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parent Description
5488 Crop dusting Agriculture
833 Cross dressing Clothes
2364 Cross-dress Gender
430 Cultural Identity (First level term)
4193 Cure Health and Illness
326 Curse Slavery
1244 Custody Law
4788 Cyclical Violence
5563 Daily life Segregation
3328 Damnation Religion
4682 Dancing Entertainment
714 Deafness Health and Illness
535 Death War
3916 Death from drinking Alcohol
2007 Declasse Class

Whenever a character has suffered a loss of social status, in particular those characters formerly connected with the prominent families of Jefferson. For example, Dan Grinnup who is Louis Grenier's family. J. Burgers

718 Defeat War
2698 Dehumanization Class
3009 Deist Religion
4267 Delirium Health and Illness
4971 Demagoguery Politics
2900 Democracy Politics
2577 Democrat Politics

In The Reivers Lucius Priest defines the various positions of Conservative, Liberal, Republican, and Democrat in the following manner: "Like this: a Republican is a man who made his money; a Liberal is a man who inherited his; a Democrat is a barefoot Liberal in a cross-country race; a Conservative is a Republican who has learned to read and write." (109) Though, these positions are hardly set in stone it is important to note the distinct separation between political outlook and political party. JB

320 Demographics Slavery

For passages that include specific numbers about the people or places involved, as when Bayard says that before the War on Sundays, there would be 10 slaves at the service for every 1 white person. SR

781 Demographics Government
2134 Demotion War
5183 Denim Clothes
4992 Dependable Food
894 Deployment War
3196 Depression-era programs Government
1478 Deprivation War

Individuals or groups who have been deprived of resources and comfort. JB

4763 Desertion War
1565 Desire Sexuality
2702 Destruction War
4711 Developmental problems Health and Illness
3227 Diminishing farms Agriculture
2459 Dirty Clothes
3968 Dirty girl Gender
314 Discipline Slavery

For passages that depict or refer to any elements of the system by which slaves were policed or punished, like the "Patrollers" who patrolled roads after dark to prevent slaves from leaving plantations. SR

3669 Disenfranchisement Race
1497 Disguise Clothes
3648 Disgust with sex Sexuality
5257 Disordered Clothes
2133 Displacement War
2669 Dispossessing Indians History
2678 Disruption Class
3109 Divine judgment Religion
3701 Divinity school Education
1446 Division Race
1379 Doctoring Health and Illness
665 Domestic Violence
673 Domestic Labor
1965 Domestic Economy
274 Domestic labor Slavery
4635 Double standard Gender
1064 Dowry Economy
993 Draft War
2665 Draft evasion / Draft dodging War
1421 Dress Clothes
3719 Dressed up Clothes
4098 Drink recipe Alcohol
5092 Drinking Ritual
2064 Driving gear Clothes
4186 Dropping out Education
2987 Drug addiction Crime
2432 Drugged Alcohol
4491 Drugs Health and Illness
2415 Drunken brawling Violence
1254 Drunkenness Alcohol
2395 Dueling Ritual
2396 Dueling Violence
4468 Easter Ritual
5538 Economic Segregation
5302 Economic basis of racism Race
4471 Economic speculation Economy
428 Economy (First level term)
431 Education (First level term)
1676 Education Progress
5471 Educational Segregation
3069 Eggs Food
1066 Election Politics
2528 Electricity Technology
2060 Electrification Progress
1435 Elevator Progress
1450 Elevator Technology
1043 Elite Class
330 Emancipation Slavery
3795 Embezzlement Crime
3508 Emptying oneself Identity, Personal
4934 English / British Nationality
3810 Englishness Identity, Cultural
432 Entertainment (First level term)
1642 Episcopal Religion
2716 Equal rights Race
2898 Equality Class

Whenever there is a leveling force that allows different classes to meet on an equal playing field. In this particular example it is the horse race in The Reivers in which class and status don't matter to the observers.

4754 Erosion Land-Use
2824 Ether Alcohol
433 Ethnicity (First level term)
291 Etiquette Slavery
783 Etiquette Race
3639 Etiquette Class

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