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Vocabulary: Cultural Issues
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
430 Cultural Identity (First level term)
429 Crime (First level term)
428 Economy (First level term)
330 Emancipation Slavery
329 Indian slave-owners Slavery
328 Amelioration Slavery

To mark passages where white slave owners make some attempt to improve the condition of the slaves they own; the clearest example is way Buck and Buddy McCaslin treat their slaves. SR

327 Southern curse Slavery
326 Curse Slavery
325 Transhistorical Slavery
324 Guilt Slavery
323 Marriage Gender
322 Reproduction Gender
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

319 Religion Slavery
318 Re-enslavement Slavery

The clearest example of this occurs in "Raid," when Granny tells the slaves she has recovered from the Union Army to go "home," to their former masters, and they seem to obey her. SR

317 Abolition Slavery
316 Minstrelsy Slavery

Used to mark the passages where the representation of a slave or group of slaves draws on the representational conventions of blackface minstrelsy, where slaves were depicted as comically inferior to whites. The scene in "Retreat" where Ringo "hollers and moans and hollers again" for "Marse John" and "Bayard and Colonel and Marse John and Granny" is an instance of this. SR

315 Freedom Slavery
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

313 Family Slavery
312 Resistance Slavery

To index passages in which slaves are described taking a stand of some kind, usually verbal, against their enslavement. The clearest instances of this involve Loosh and Granny on the Sartoris plantation. (More direct physical forms of resistance are indexed under "Fugitive" and "Revolt.") SR

311 Naming slaves Slavery
310 Marriage Slavery
309 Concubinage Slavery
308 Middle passage Slavery
307 Field slaves vs house slaves Slavery
306 Slave trading Slavery
305 African origins Slavery
304 Quarters Slavery
303 Biblical analogy Slavery
302 AANoSecondTerm Slavery
Vocabulary: Aesthetics
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
416 Typography/Orthography (First level term)
415 Tone (First level term)
414 Style (First level term)
413 Media (First level term)
412 Recurring Episodes (First level term)
411 Narrative (First level term)
410 Interpretation (First level term)
409 Genre Conventions (First level term)
408 Figures of Speech (First level term)
407 Diction (First level term)
406 Allusion, Historical (First level term)
Vocabulary: Relationships
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
405 Social (First level term)
404 Romantic (First level term)
403 Interracial (First level term)
402 Institutional (First level term)
400 Familial (First level term)
399 Commercial (First level term)
398 Civic (First level term)
397 Ancestral (First level term)
Vocabulary: Themes and Motifs
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
395 Values (First level term)
394 Time (First level term)
393 Texts (First level term)
392 Story-telling (First level term)
388 Recurring Tropes (First level term)
387 Psychological (First level term)
386 Philosophical (First level term)
385 Chaos/Order (First level term)
384 Supernatural (First level term)
382 Money (First level term)
381 Meaning (First level term)
376 Home (First level term)
374 Futility (First level term)
372 Exile (First level term)
371 Determinism (First level term)
370 Death (First level term)
368 Community (First level term)
366 Character (First level term)
365 Body (First level term)
364 Animals (First level term)
363 Art (First level term)
362 Arrivals/Departures (First level term)
358 Absence/Loss (First level term)
Vocabulary: Actions
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
357 Work (First level term)
356 Violent (First level term)
355 Verbal (First level term)
354 Play (First level term)
353 Physical (First level term)
352 Perceptual (First level term)
351 Movement (First level term)
350 Moral (First level term)
349 Military (First level term)
348 Mental (First level term)
347 Interaction, Social (First level term)
346 Interaction, Private (First level term)
345 Hunting (First level term)
344 Emotional (First level term)
343 Economic (First level term)
342 Bodily (First level term)
Vocabulary: Environment
Term IDsort ascending Term Parent Description
341 Weather (First level term)
340 Time of Year (First level term)
339 Time of Day (First level term)
338 Public (First level term)
337 Place (First level term)
336 Otherworldly (First level term)
335 Olfactory (First level term)
334 Natural (First level term)
333 Domestic Space (First level term)
332 Auditory (First level term)
331 Atmospheric (First level term)

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