#History: A Journal of Student Research#History: A Journal of Student Research is a student driven, peer-reviewed, electronic journal that publishes articles by graduate and undergraduate students from any accredited college or university.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/19262024-03-29T10:56:48Z2024-03-29T10:56:48ZThe Sexual Revolution of the "Roaring Twenties": Practice or Perception?Clark, Shelliehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/26712021-11-03T18:17:28Z2016-12-01T00:00:00ZThe Sexual Revolution of the "Roaring Twenties": Practice or Perception?
Clark, Shellie
Even after the passage of over 80 years, the perceived radical shift in morality in the 1920’s defies concrete definition. Many popular images seem to offer evidence that indicate a change in sexual propriety, with portrayals of scantily dressed flappers swigging illicit liquor from flasks, and racy advertisements for silk stockings showing off women’s legs, so soon after a time when women were covered from the neck to the ankle even at the beach. Religious and conservative leaders alluded to a total collapse of morality and blamed popular entertainment for degrading America’s youth. This paper analyzes primary sources from the 1920s in an effort to determine the attitudes of the people who experienced, and often shaped, the era. These sources suggest a wide variety of opinion among Americans and the existence of a fully developed sexual awareness lurking beneath the veneer of polite society long before the “roaring twenties.” Although it is not possible to prove or disprove a true “revolution” in sexual morality, this paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the values which changed and those which were simply exposed by the light of a more tolerant time.
2016-12-01T00:00:00ZNeoslavery: The Perpetuation of Slavery After the American Civil WarFalter, Benjaminhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/26702021-11-03T18:17:28Z2016-12-01T00:00:00ZNeoslavery: The Perpetuation of Slavery After the American Civil War
Falter, Benjamin
Many Americans are under the impression that slavery ended following the Civil War. However, this is a vast oversimplification of the reality that Black men and women faced in the South after the war’s end. Freedmen’s bureau reports, “Black Codes,” and the research of historians demonstrate the ways in which Black men and women were treated following the end of the Civil War. Comparing the conditions revealed in the aforementioned sources to the conditions Black men and women faced during legal slavery reveals startling similarities. Violence against Blacks continued to be widespread in the post-war period, and many Black men and women were even bought and sold through convict leasing. In short, slavery continued in all but name.
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2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThe American Revolution and the Black Loyalist ExodusBibko, Juliahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/26692021-11-03T18:17:28Z2016-12-01T00:00:00ZThe American Revolution and the Black Loyalist Exodus
Bibko, Julia
This paper provides an account of the experiences of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia, London, and Sierra Leone after the American Revolution. Tens of thousands of North American slaves fled to the ranks of the British army when they were promised freedom in return for service. When the British lost the war, they began the evacuation of both White and Black Loyalists out of the colonies. Black Loyalists were sent primarily to Nova Scotia and England and, to a lesser extent, the Bahamas and West Indies. Yet the Black Loyalists were not content with freedom alone; they actively fought for equality and against discrimination in their new countries. Black Loyalists thus took charge of their own emancipation by fighting for the British and continuing to fight for equality even after their exodus from the colonies. The results of the Black Loyalist exodus were mixed, as shown by letters from the Sierra Leone colonists themselves. Yet the experience of the Black Loyalists is significant because this massive migration of free Blacks had international implications, the founding of the Sierra Leone colony being one example. This narrative also brings into question the concept of the Revolution as a national struggle for independence, in addition to revealing the complexity of Loyalist ideology.
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