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Chattel Slavery

Perhaps the most defining institution of life in the United States, this socioeconomic system permitted private citizens to claim ownership of other individuals, their lives and their labors.

Chicasetta

Primary location of the novel, this fictional town is founded on a Native American village.

Georgia

A prominent location in the novel, this Southern state is deeply associated with a number of civil rights movements and can be taken as an encapsulation of the American South.

Manners

These are repeatedly reinforced in the novel, with many characters commenting about the primary protagonist’s display of them.

Partus Sequitur Ventrem

This legal principle holds that the race of the mother determines the race of the child. It was used to further the practice of human ownership.

Peach Butt

This Carolinian structure marks progress to the primary narrator’s ancestral home. The incongruity of its appearance receives attention.

Routledge College

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