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"Tangled Skeins": Henry Timrod's "The Cotton Boll" and the Slave Narratives

"Tangled Skeins": Henry Timrod's "The Cotton Boll" and the Slave Narratives “Tangled  Skeins”: Henry Timrod’s “The Cotton Boll” and the Slave Narratives by Carl Plasa Little dreamed the ingenious Eli Whitney, when riveting the teeth on his admirable invention, the cotton- gin, that he was at the same time riveting the fetters on the slave, and the foulest of institutions on the framework of American society. — “Revolution of the Spindles, For the Overthrow of American Slavery” 1 According to Toni Morrison, neither slavery nor black people at large were phenomena that nineteenth- century American writers could readily escape. As she observes in Playing in the Dark (1992): e a Th lertness to a slave population did not confine itself to the per - sonal encounters that writers may have had. Slave narratives were a nineteenth- century publication boom. The press, the political cam - paigns, and the policy of various parties and elected officials were rife with the discourse of slavery and freedom. It would have been an isolato indeed who was unaware of the most explosive issue in the nation. How could one speak of prot fi , economy, labor, prog - ress, suffragism, Christianity, the frontier, the formation of new states, the acquisition of new lands, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

"Tangled Skeins": Henry Timrod's "The Cotton Boll" and the Slave Narratives

The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 45 (1) – Jul 19, 2013

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2012 The Southern Literary Journaland the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of English and Comparative Literature.
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1534-1461

Abstract

“Tangled  Skeins”: Henry Timrod’s “The Cotton Boll” and the Slave Narratives by Carl Plasa Little dreamed the ingenious Eli Whitney, when riveting the teeth on his admirable invention, the cotton- gin, that he was at the same time riveting the fetters on the slave, and the foulest of institutions on the framework of American society. — “Revolution of the Spindles, For the Overthrow of American Slavery” 1 According to Toni Morrison, neither slavery nor black people at large were phenomena that nineteenth- century American writers could readily escape. As she observes in Playing in the Dark (1992): e a Th lertness to a slave population did not confine itself to the per - sonal encounters that writers may have had. Slave narratives were a nineteenth- century publication boom. The press, the political cam - paigns, and the policy of various parties and elected officials were rife with the discourse of slavery and freedom. It would have been an isolato indeed who was unaware of the most explosive issue in the nation. How could one speak of prot fi , economy, labor, prog - ress, suffragism, Christianity, the frontier, the formation of new states, the acquisition of new lands,

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The Southern Literary JournalUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jul 19, 2013

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