The story of Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star crossed lovers who come from two different apposing families that let their feuds with each other blind their eyes from the love their children have for each other. Under these circumstances where better to set my paper than in Virginia during the brink of the Civil War, the war in which some of the bloodiest battles ever fought on U.S. soil accrued in, and the nation was split pinning family against family and brother against brother.
I chose to set my “Romeo and Juliet” in Virginia, in 1861.The Confederate States started to secede from the union on December 20th of 1860 when South Carolina decided to leave the United States of America, and after this quickly followed Mississippi, Florida, …show more content…
The only members of Virginia that did not join the Confederacy were the forty-eight counties that decided to join the union and become West Virginia. One of the major reasons for the succession of the south was the 1857 court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, where a slave …show more content…
So since I can remember I have been presented with lots of info on the Civil War. When researching the history of the time and place I wanted my “Romeo and Juliet” to occur I was not as certain of what was happening in Virginia during 1861 and the beginning years of the war so I had to go and find sources on the topic, so I did what and college student should do and went to the library and checked out as many books as I could about the Civil War in Virginia in 1861, and I actually found a lot of cool books. My favorite that I came across were The Civil War a Concise History, The Negro America: A Documentary History, Civil War Virginia and The Civil War in 50 Objects. From each of these books I was able to pull a lot of information from the time that was very helpful with not only helping me with my historical research of the time period but also with how I was going to structure some of my characters. I used The Civil War a Concise History for some historical context of what was happening during the beginning stages of the war in 1861 for some of the details I wasn’t very sure about like the military status of the Confederate States at the beginning of the war, or how their economic status was
I chose to set my “Romeo and Juliet” in Virginia, in 1861.The Confederate States started to secede from the union on December 20th of 1860 when South Carolina decided to leave the United States of America, and after this quickly followed Mississippi, Florida, …show more content…
The only members of Virginia that did not join the Confederacy were the forty-eight counties that decided to join the union and become West Virginia. One of the major reasons for the succession of the south was the 1857 court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, where a slave …show more content…
So since I can remember I have been presented with lots of info on the Civil War. When researching the history of the time and place I wanted my “Romeo and Juliet” to occur I was not as certain of what was happening in Virginia during 1861 and the beginning years of the war so I had to go and find sources on the topic, so I did what and college student should do and went to the library and checked out as many books as I could about the Civil War in Virginia in 1861, and I actually found a lot of cool books. My favorite that I came across were The Civil War a Concise History, The Negro America: A Documentary History, Civil War Virginia and The Civil War in 50 Objects. From each of these books I was able to pull a lot of information from the time that was very helpful with not only helping me with my historical research of the time period but also with how I was going to structure some of my characters. I used The Civil War a Concise History for some historical context of what was happening during the beginning stages of the war in 1861 for some of the details I wasn’t very sure about like the military status of the Confederate States at the beginning of the war, or how their economic status was