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The website PaulLaurenceDunbar. net has released a new version of the classic dialect poem, "An Ante-Bellum Sermon," written in Near-Standard English, by Rev. Bill McGinnis, a student and admirer of Dunbar and owner of the website.
Paul Laurence Dunbar Website Releases New Version Of Dialect Poem "An Ante-Bellum Sermon"
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I remember in going through the early records for the history of the Methodist Church for my Ante-Bellum
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Young people are just going back to old Ante-Bellum days.
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On one of those visits he honored me with a good long talk, as he invited me to walk with him under the old trees which had sheltered him as a college-boy. in the Ante-Bellum days
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Our poem on "The Ante-Bellum South" seems to express what is here intended to be conveyed:
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Examining it's growth and evolution from the Revolutionary / Ante-Bellum eras to the Jim Crow days to the broadened access to white privilege to a wider range of ethnic groups shows that.
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Ante-Bellum South comprised the slave states before the American Civil War started in 1861; all the northern states had abolished slavery.
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Ante-Bellum South comprised the slave states before the American Civil War started in 1861; all the northern states had abolished slavery.
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Whiteness was created to classify people and to convince them that some benefit was conferred upon them by as a member of the desired group, first in the Revolutionary and Ante-Bellum eras, and later during the crippling Jim Crow years.
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However the question begs to be answered … who did those that established and carried out the evil (see "The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South" by Kenneth M. Stampp) institution of slavery see as God?
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