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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Suicide, divorce, and debt in Civil War era North Carolina Abstract: This dissertation explores shifting social mores in North Carolina over the course of the nineteenth century. It employs suicide, divorce, and debt as specific lenses through which to explore these shifts. The Civil War forced a fundamental reinterpretation of moral sentiments towards these practices, and the nature of this reinterpretation was predicated on race. White North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt during the antebellum period. The Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing them to reinterpret suicide, divorce, and debt in a new social, cultural, and economic context. Antebellum black North Carolinians, on the other hand, held very different attitudes towards suicide, divorce, and debt, shaped by slavery's injustices. The Civil War and emancipation created the opportunity for them to create new moral constructs. |
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