Page # | Item | Description |
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45-50 | Lincoln | see footnotes for chapter 1 |
45 | General Lee’s soldiers escorting Lincoln | |
45 | Gilded Age (how it relates) | |
45 | The River Queen | |
45 | yokel-dokel | |
45 | the Scotch plaid cap and cloak | |
47 | Slave mother milk (real or myth) | |
47 | Lord Tennyson as an aesthete | |
47 | Sir Baron | |
47 | Tennyson’s poem on slave mother milk and Ennui | |
47 | Ennui | |
47 | Milieu | |
48 | William Wells Brown “the writer” | |
48 | Napoleon III at this time | |
49 | Dennis Carter “The Painter” |
Real artist who painted historically significant events in America. One civil war era painting, “Lincoln’s Drive Through Richmond”, would be most relevant to the text. |
49 | Carter painting Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation |
This Francis Carpenter painting depicts the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. This is the closest painting to match the description, but is not done by Dennis Carter. |
49-50 | Money worth (confederate vs. union) | |
50 | Golden fluid hair slick as a hair treatment elixir | |
50 | “Bookie odds” phrase |