HIS 108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 84: Omen, Southern Hospitality
27 Apr 2019
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Anonymous (1866: the man giving this testimony is a northerner traveling in the south at the beginning of. Any union man, travelling in either of these two states, must expect to hear many very contemned, and himself subjected to much disagreeable contumely. Till all these hateful walls of caste are thrown down, we can have neither intelligent national unity. : the poor whites are ignorant, and they don"t know they have the right to a better, educated life. That education is the stairway to a nobler existence is a fact which indifferent. Where there is such a spirit of caste, where the ruling class has a and contempt. Ignorance is generally cruel, and frequently brutal. they aren"t free to be open about that fact: he thinks some of the best people in the south are the former confederate soldiers, and they weren"t.
