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Journal Article
AENEAS AND THE LOST CAUSE
2022
Overview
Scholars have generally downplayed the connection between the Aeneid and Eneas Africanus (1919), Harry Stillwell Edwards’s famous novella about the slave Eneas’s journey back to his plantation. But Aeneas’s pietas, role as leader and founder, and position on the losing side of a war are essential to Edwards’s purpose: supporting the Lost Cause. This idea asserts that the Civil War was about states’ rights rather than slavery and that slaves were well-treated, happy, and loyal. By embracing and propagating this fiction, Eneas Africanus is as much a monument to white supremacy as the Confederate statues erected at the same time.
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Vergilian Society
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