Keywords

Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term ID Term Parent Description
737 Union Army War
1456 Unity War

This keyword describes the way in which war calls upon disparate people to fight for the same ideal. The specific example this is based on is Southerners ultimately fighting in the United States army in later wars, but could also described the camaraderie between allied nations. Joost Burgers
5381 University of Mississippi Education
1231 Unspecified sickness Health and Illness
5342 Uppitiness Race
4869 Urban Clothes
1734 US Bureau of Indian Affairs Government
1733 US Post Office Government
4762 Using a Negro as messenger Race
1464 Usurpation Government
1747 Vagrancy Crime
5535 Valedictorian Education
1670 Veil Clothes
5654 Venereal disease Health and Illness
1744 Vest Clothes
5318 Veterans War

This is a general marker for anything to do with veterans. The specific instance is the relationship between Jock and Captain Warren in "Death Drag." Although this is technically a "relationship" between veterans, the occurrence is so rare that it makes more sense to create a generic term.
5544 Veterans Administration Government
1342 Vicarious Sexuality
1424 Vigilantism Crime

This denotes moments where characters appoint themselves to punish a crime (real or imagined). BR
249 Violence (First level term)
277 Violence Slavery
4828 Violence against civilians War
2993 Virginia Education
1884 Virginity Sexuality
5759 Virility Sexuality
4406 Visit Ritual
4354 Voodoo Religion
4780 Voter fraud Crime
716 Voting Politics
2525 Voting rights Government
3087 Voyeurism Sexuality
1194 Wages Economy
2001 Waistcoat Crime
1974 Wanted poster Law

Any paraphernalia used to publicly identify a possible criminal. The example used is from The Reivers, which refers to a "Bertillon chart or a police poster" (3). JB
4676 Wanting a drink Alcohol
250 War (First level term)
807 War Gender
812 War Age
1712 War of 1812 War
2424 War of 1812 History
1504 Warrant Law
5156 Watch chain Clothes
3453 Weak heart Health and Illness
1044 Wealth Economy
5620 Wedding Ritual
1899 Wedding dress Clothes
1048 Wedding license Law
3492 Welfare Government
5695 Welsh Nationality
2143 West Point Education
4149 Wet clothes Clothes
724 Whiskey Alcohol
296 White anxiety Slavery

For moments in the text which describe anxiety felt by white characters about the presence or possible actions of slaves, as when Loosh's sudden appearance and behavior make Bayard uncomfortable. SR
4962 White fear Race
2401 White race Race
1007 White savior Race
2530 White supremacists Race
572 White supremacy Prejudice
2513 White trash Class
2409 White-Indian commerce Economy
1655 Widow Gender
2228 Wine Alcohol
4106 Wine hamper Alcohol
1009 Witness Law
5324 Woman smoking Gender
561 Women Gender
621 Women Clothes
800 Women War
5789 Women as aggressive Gender
3950 Women as gentler sex / delicate Gender
3953 Women as mysterious / secretive Gender
4701 Women as sacred Gender
5354 Wonderful Sexuality
818 Woodcraft Hunting and Fishing
1419 Work Migration

This is used for instances of characters relocating to a different state or country for reasons related to work and employment (i.e., economic migration). BR
2873 Work Gender
3572 Work clothes Clothes
1174 Working Class
978 World War I War
735 World War II War
3358 World's Fair Entertainment
616 Wound War
1846 Yale Education
1530 Yankee Identity, Cultural
4845 Yankee uniform Clothes
4333 Yellow fever Health and Illness
650 Youth Age
4651 Youth vs age Age
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term ID Term Parent Description
1354 Abandonment Marital
625 Abusive Marital
5159 Adoptive Familial
2799 Adult friends Friendship
2892 Adult-child Friendship
858 Adultery Sexual
1355 Adultery Marital
597 Adversarial Social
1147 Alleged Marital
397 Ancestral (First level term)
4803 Animals preying on humans Interspecies
3384 Arranged Marital

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