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Conflict and Celebration (A nation Divivded (William Lloyd Garrison…
Conflict and Celebration
A nation Divivded
William Lloyd Garrison attacked slavery every week in his newspapper, The Liberator.
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In the south, on the other hand, the economy had remained agricultural, depending on cotton exports, the slave system,and low tariffs.
In december of 1860, South caroline seceded from the the union; within a month sex more states followed, and four others joined the new Confederacy soon after.
By the middle of the century, the North had secured prosperity through manufacturing and commerce.
With the firing at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the civilwar began.
The young Mark Twain joined a Confederate milita; his brother accepted a union apointment and moved to the nevada torritory.
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Three Americans
During this years three writer emerged who used The American Language in new ways and who would prove to be among America´s literary giants.
Emily Dickenson
She is the quieter, drier, crisper tone of New England speech we hear in her poems, she wrotein "literaly" style of England, her voice takes on a irony and reveals a sensiblity that still seems today.
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Mark Twain
He was a child of the missisipi river, he sought his fortune in California, he wrote about mining campsand back water towns, daring riverboat pilots, country children and their dreams.
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Walt Whitman
Whitman invented new expresions wich scribed american experience, he generated new rhythms and new forms, he became the country in his poetry.
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