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Nastalgia of Slave Owners
White slave owners believed that enslaved people were incapable of forging any attachment to home, and so therefore wouldn't feel homesickness. Nastaljia also showed up years later in american soldiers. During the civil war, if you weren't sent home, letters were the second best cure. The philadelphia inquirer urged the public to send soldiers mail, saying it would literally fend off the disease.