Gone With The Wind's Problem With Civil War & Slavery Carlton Moss, one of the pioneering figures in independent Black cinema in the early years of Hollywood, described Gone With the Wind as a "nostalgic plea for sympathy for a still living cause of Southern reaction" chock full of racist stereotypes that acted as a "rear attack" on Black Americans in much the same way Gone with the Wind (1939) the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war Scarlett is beautiful She has vitality is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins Rhett ButlerLook for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind" By Carter B Horsley The quotation above is the opening of "Gone With The Wind," Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prizewinning, 1,037page, 1936 novel about the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the "Old South" and on one of the "Ladies Fair" David O Selznick bought the
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