{"id":445,"date":"2009-09-30T03:14:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:46:32","slug":"%e2%80%9ctrue-and-candid-compositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/09\/30\/%e2%80%9ctrue-and-candid-compositions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTrue and Candid Compositions&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-446\" title=\"UNC\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/UNC-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"UNC\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/UNC-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/09\/UNC.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cTrue and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina\u201d is an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/true\/\" target=\"_blank\">online exhibit<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Documenting the American South <\/a>at UNC-Chapel Hill.\u00a0 The site breaks down this period (1795-1869) into six chapters and each one has essays on key topics and relevant primary sources.<\/p>\n<p>One particularly interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/true\/mss05-12\/mss05-12.html\" target=\"_blank\">letter from 1856 <\/a>shows what can happen to southerners who publicly supported the Republican party. UNC professor Benjamin Hedrick told Hinton Rowan Helper (<em>The Impending Crisis of the South<\/em>) that \u201call the means of the worst politicians were at once brought to bear against me,\u201d including \u201cefforts\u2026to excite the students to mob me.\u201d Eventually the UNC Board of Trustees forced him out of the university. As the \u201ctrustees [were] nearly all politicians,\u201d Hedrick concluded \u201cthey were very willing to sacrifice me to the popular clamor.\u201d (House Divided also has <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/28553\" target=\"_blank\">an editorial <\/a>about this event.)\u00a0 Check out DocSouth&#8217;s other digital collections <a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/browse\/collections.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrue and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina\u201d is an interesting online exhibit from Documenting the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.\u00a0 The site breaks down this period (1795-1869) into six chapters and each one has essays on key topics and relevant primary sources. One particularly interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156,172],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","category-letters-diaries","tag-slavery-abolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}