Kit Carson/the Trapper Years 1829-1840

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    I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully the buildup in the South of a special consciousness brought about by the self- condemnation resulting from slavery, the humiliation following the War Between the States and the hope, sometimes expressed timidly, for redemption.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    It seemed the mockery of hell to fold
    The rottenness of eighty years in gold.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)