Abstract

These United States - VII. South Carolina: A Lingering Fragrance

Lewisohn, Ludwig | July 12, 1922 issue

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More than thirty years have passed since social leader Ben Tillman led the revolt of the agrarians, of the upper country against the old Charlestonian aristocracy. Tillman won. The time-spirit was with him. The new men control the State. The new men brought neither freedom nor enlightenment. They oppress and bedevil the Negro without the old gentry's vivid and human even if strictly feudal sympathy with his character and needs; they sentimentalize in political speeches and commencement orations about the Old South. Of its genuine qualities, as these were represented in old Charleston, they know nothing.

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REVOLUTIONS; SOCIAL movements; POLITICAL change; SOCIAL unrest; SOUTH Carolina; CHARLESTON (S.C.); UNITED States
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