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CONTEXT: THE CITADEL BESIEGED

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2018

Lawrence T. McDonnell
Lawrence T. McDonnell
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Iowa State University
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Generally I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks very busy to me.

Jasper Johns, 1959

Fear, honor, and interest went hand in hand in antebellum Charleston. The connections between them were by no means natural or unconflicted, yet they formed a triad unmistakable to all who walked the city's streets. They shaped all aspects of life in the slaveholders’ citadel and drove it toward secession in 1860. The sign of their conjuncture was the blue cockade.

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Performing Disunion
The Coming of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina
 , pp. 21 - 22
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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