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The article explores the literary regionalism in the U.S. Unlike the modern landscape of globalization, which is characterized by its profoundly uncertain spatial dimensions and the general mobility of its economic networks, the notion of region in the country is mostly aligned with very different paradigms. In contemporary thinking on region in both cultural studies and geography, region often holds a kind of dormancy, a sense of spatial decidedness and finiteness. Regionalism flourished as the dominant genre in the nation's print culture shortly from after the Civil War until the first decade of the twentieth century.

This paper focus on the role of women in antebellum racial incitement, beginning with Philadelphia and Boston Female Anti-Slavery Societies. The political nature of their abolitionist activities and their acceptance of black women as members led critics to associate the women's groups with the fear of racial "amalgamation" and miscegenation, ultimately justifying hostile attacks against them. In 1835, mobs attacked the Boston Female Anti-Slavery meeting. Despite rioters' demands, the women refused to leave their meeting, until mayor of Boston arrived to order the women out. The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society was also attacked in 1838. The women were denied a petition of protection from the mayor, and mobs burned buildings, and black homes and businesses. Victims of mob violence were charged as "advocating doctrines repulsive to moral sense". By the end of the 1830s, civil sanctioning of popular terrorism to fight the perceived threat of racial amalgamation was clearly in effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]