Original scientific paper
“Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb
Barry Shelton
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APA 6th Edition
Shelton, B. (2014). “Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb. Proverbium, 31 (1), 395-408. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372
MLA 8th Edition
Shelton, Barry. "“Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb." Proverbium, vol. 31, no. 1, 2014, pp. 395-408. https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372. Accessed 12 Sep. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Shelton, Barry. "“Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb." Proverbium 31, no. 1 (2014): 395-408. https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372
Harvard
Shelton, B. (2014). '“Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb', Proverbium, 31(1), pp. 395-408. Available at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372 (Accessed 12 September 2024)
Vancouver
Shelton B. “Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb. Proverbium [Internet]. 2014 [cited 2024 September 12];31(1):395-408. Available from: https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372
IEEE
B. Shelton, "“Root, Hog, or Die”: A Republican Proverb", Proverbium, vol.31, no. 1, pp. 395-408, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372. [Accessed: 12 September 2024]
Abstract
The American proverb, “root hog or die,” though popular in the early nineteenth century, gained widespread use after President Lincoln used it at the Hampton Roads Conference. Newspapers across the country then published contradictory anecdotal accounts of how Lincoln had used the proverb, incensing the citizenry of both Northern and Southern states. The proverb then became a contentious political rallying cry used frequently in the racially charged rhetoric of the Re-construction Era.
Keywords
American Proverbs; Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Civil War; Re-construction Era; Political Rhetoric; Wellerisms; Folksong; Broadsides; Minstrelsy
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278372
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https://hrcak.srce.hr/278372
Publication date:
31.8.2014.
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