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Uncovering the Confederacy of the Mind: Or, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey’s Church

Uncovering the Confederacy of the Mind: Or, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey’s... Essa y .................... Uncovering the Confederacy of the Mind Or, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey’s Church by Blain Roberts Blain Roberts: “The Confederate Heritage Trust was sponsoring a Secession Gala at Gaillard Municipal Auditorium [ in Charleston]. I would rub elbows with hundreds of revelers dressed in hoop skirts and militia uniforms, men and women who believed the Old South was the apex of civilization and mourned its destruction.” Ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar, Broad and Legare Streets, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress. 6 was so rushed that I could barely maintain my balance. The struggle to pull pantyhose over my tired feet, newly liberated from a pair of running shoes that had pounded the streets of Charleston all day, was about to get the best of me. It was a   I memorable ordeal: pantyhose don’t exactly make a regular ap- pearance in my wardrobe. But that wasn’t the most remarkable thing about that moment. It was where I was changing my clothes, and why. There I was, in the bathroom at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, slipping into a ball gown http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Uncovering the Confederacy of the Mind: Or, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey’s Church

Roberts, Blain.
Southern Cultures , Volume 19 (3) – Aug 15, 2013
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Essa y .................... Uncovering the Confederacy of the Mind Or, How I Became a Belle of the Ball in Denmark Vesey’s Church by Blain Roberts Blain Roberts: “The Confederate Heritage Trust was sponsoring a Secession Gala at Gaillard Municipal Auditorium [ in Charleston]. I would rub elbows with hundreds of revelers dressed in hoop skirts and militia uniforms, men and women who believed the Old South was the apex of civilization and mourned its destruction.” Ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar, Broad and Legare Streets, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress. 6 was so rushed that I could barely maintain my balance. The struggle to pull pantyhose over my tired feet, newly liberated from a pair of running shoes that had pounded the streets of Charleston all day, was about to get the best of me. It was a   I memorable ordeal: pantyhose don’t exactly make a regular ap- pearance in my wardrobe. But that wasn’t the most remarkable thing about that moment. It was where I was changing my clothes, and why. There I was, in the bathroom at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, slipping into a ball gown

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