OLLI - Dixie Voices: The World of the Antebellum South

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Friday, October 2, 2015 - 1:30pm

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Americans have long pondered the question of why Southerners—mostly non-slaveholders—were willing to break up the national compact and risk lives and fortunes in defense of their traditional way of life. In this course we will delve into the mind of the Old South in an effort to resolve that puzzle. Each week we will explore the career and philosophical outlook of a key Southern thinker. Some of these representative spokesmen were well known figures—John C. Calhoun Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and “Stonewall” Jackson were important cultural icons before the first shots were fired at Sumter. But others came from more humble backgrounds, such as Hinton Helper, a rather anomalous character who was vigorously opposed to slavery. And certainly none of our protagonists came from a more miserable background than Nat Turner, the slave leader of the bloody uprising of 1831 which shocked the white establishment. We will examine the writings of several southern women, and see how they balanced their sectional loyalties with an often uneasy relationship with the “peculiar institution". Throughout the course, we will be investigating the omnipresent significance of racial consciousness in shaping the world view of “Dixieland”. This course is taught by Mick Chantler, MA.
October 2 – November 6, 2015, 1:30 – 3:15 p.m. (6 classes) ]]>

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http://dancepalace.org/events/olli-dixie-voices-world-antebellum-south

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