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“I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s self…” Walt Whitman may have confused many of his readers the first few times they’ve read his poems. Considering his […] […] “The quadroon girl is sold at the sand…” During the 19th century in the south, the word quadroon was used to describe African American slaves who were racially mixed. This was basically what they called an offspring of a biracial couple. The couple had to be one where at least one parent was white and […] […] Sep 15th Oatakan (image gloss) “I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe …and am not contained between my hat and boots, And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good. The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good. I am not an earth nor an adjunct of earth, I am […] […] “I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west, the bride was a red girl, Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders, On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard […] […] |