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Kate Chopin Research Paper

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Kate spent the Civil War in St. Louis, where residents supported both the Union and the Confederacy and her family had slaves in the house. Like the rest of her family, Chopin grew up strongly pro-Confederate, a feeling embellished by the passing of her half-brother in the Civil War. In actuality, at thirteen years old Chopin was arrested for tearing up a Union flag from her family's porch that the victorious Union troops had hung. She was given the title as St. Louis's Littlest Rebel something that marked Chopin's behavior as an adult, because she tended to her own interests more meticulously rather than society's irrational and sexually bigot command. Chopin's treatment of African Americans in her works she not be overlooked but it often
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