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What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- Invoking his state's Revolutionary motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis, a young Virginia officer filled letters to his mother with comparisons of the North's "war of subjugation against the South" to "England's war upon the colonies."†
p. 9.1subjugation = forced submission to another's dominance
- Over and over again in Confederate letters, one finds sentences like these: "It is better to spend our all in defending our country than to be subjugated and have it taken away from us."†
p. 12.6subjugated = forced into submission
- It is better to die than be subjugated, and I for one am ready and willing to fight to the bitter end.†
p. 12.6 *
- Subjugated was the favorite word for the fate worse than death that would face southern whites if the Confederacy lost the war.†
p. 12.6
- An Indiana sergeant told his wife that while he had no use for free blacks, he approved the Emancipation Proclamation "if it will only bring the war to an end any sooner I am like the fellow that got his house burned by the guerrillas he was in for emancipation subjugation extermination and hell and damnation.†
p. 62.9subjugation = forced submission to another's dominance
Definitions:
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(1)
(subjugate) to force into submissionin various senses, including:
- when a people are defeated in battle and oppressed -- as in "The Romans subjugated most of Europe."
- when something is treated as less important than something else -- as in "subjugate the desires of the individual to the desires of the state," or "subjugate instinct to reason"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)