{"id":6095,"date":"2018-09-26T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/?page_id=6095"},"modified":"2020-04-01T01:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:16:27","slug":"mauldin-journal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/research-voices\/mauldin-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Complicity, then Violence: The Mauldin Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article was written by Brandon Inabinet and originally published on February 25, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best record of the lead up to Civil War is housed in Furman&#8217;s Special Collections, the Journal of Belton Oscar Mauldin for 1860. In it, a Furman student documents in his handwriting the slow transition of the area, from pro-Union &#8220;backcountry&#8221; area to a brutally violent yet celebratory, independent South Carolina. Unused to the massive plantation culture of the lower part of the state, Furman students and faculty did still have the &#8220;right&#8221; to own slaves and Mauldin&#8217;s diary captures some of these transactions as best we have them. While we have no record (to date) of the university&#8217;s purchase or sale of slaves, and many students would have been too poor to own any themselves, this journal helps capture the economic and social system that supported the roots of higher education in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The language of the journal will offend our ears today, but captures the attitudes of its time, so crucial sections for understanding this transition are posted below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was written by Brandon Inabinet and originally published on February 25, 2018. Perhaps the best record of the lead up to Civil War is housed in Furman&#8217;s Special Collections, the Journal of Belton Oscar Mauldin for 1860. In it, a Furman student documents in his handwriting the slow transition of the area, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6222,"parent":6102,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6095","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6095\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/seeking-abraham-project\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}