Torsade Literary Space Catastrophe (part six)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part six) IV. At Fort-de-France Ashes and Terrors Black Fears. White Fears. Blue Fears. Zulima has not lied. She has barely exaggerated. Fort-de-France is sad. The city seems to go forth from […]
Catastrophe (part five)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique (part five) II. Before the Volcano (On the way to Saint-Pierre, at sunset) The land! It is always there at the end of a voyage, an impatience, a quivering, when we […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (conclusion)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part four)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part three)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part two)
We continue with General James Harrison Wilson‘s accounting to the U.S. government, at the close of the Civil War, of the difficulties in bringing the south to reconciliation, both with its nation, and its newly expanded free population. (Blacks were given citizenship under the 14th amendment, ratified 1868.) Again, the […]
Condition of the South at the Close of the War (part one)
Writers of historical fiction, the next few days’ posts are for you. The transcription I’ll be offering, from General James Harrison Wilson‘s memoirs, (Under the Old Flag, 1912), gives the best illumination I have seen of 1860s attitudes on race. If we write about this era, we don’t want our white […]
Catastrophe (part four)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (four) At Basse-Terre, we were reassured. At Pointe we found a thousand Martiniquais refugees, of whom around five hundred had come not wanting to stay at Fort-de-France, for being told it was rendered uninhabitable by the previous […]
Catastrophe (part three)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (part three) To report… Now, the fact, at Saint-Pierre, is that these inhabitants wanted to go. And if these seems to you too general, absolutely, take that portion of the inhabitants whose example had the chance of being […]
Catastrophe (part two)
Jean Hess La Catastrophe de la Martinique Preface continued (two) The fifth of May, when the volcano had ravaged the valley of the Rivière-Blanche, and the approaches to the Prêcheur, he [Mouttet] alerted Paris. The sixth of May, when the volcano, in devastating the valley of the […]