Faulkner, William

An Analysis of Absalom, Absalom! From the Perspective of New Historicism

“…The great migration triggered by the American Civil War became an irreversible trend in the early 20th century, which thus caused a change in the social population structure. According to incomplete statistics, only in the twenties of the 20th century, 800,000 black people left the South and moved elsewhere (Hamblin et al, 1999). At that time, sharp reductions in labor force put Southern Whites under tremendous pressure to survive.…”