Assignment Instructions for Slavery Unit

Read text Ch11, Ch12, and Ch14. 

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch11, Ch12, and Ch14.

Study the Secondary and Primary sources for the Slavery Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.

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For each week, 

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic

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By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Some Suggested Terms related to Slavery for your weekly assignments

 

Identifications
William Lloyd Garrison	Nat Turner	Frederick Douglass
Liberia	Ralph R. Gurle	George Fitzhugh
Dred Scott case	Fugitive Slave Law	Wilmot Proviso
Eli Whitney	Moses Roper	spirituals
Lincoln-Douglas debates	Stephen Douglas	Fugitive Slave Law
John Brown	Franklin Pierce	Great Compromiser
underground railroad	personal liberty laws	Henry Clay
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Daniel Webster	Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act	Prigg v. Pennsylvania	Sojourner Truth
Robert Finley	Jehudi Ashmun	Paul Cuffe
David Walker	The Liberator	Reverend Elijah Lovejoy
Harriet Tubman	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	The Garies and Their Friends
Clotel	Martin R. Delany	John Brown
	Choose your own and identify it

 

Narratives
Harpers Ferry	Ostend Manifesto	American Colonization Society
slave revolts	Confessions of Nat Turner	Slave Power Conspiracy
Crisis of 1850	Missouri Compromise	Kansas-Nebraska Act
Black Warrior	Bleeding Kansas	Bleeding Sumner
Harpers Ferry		Choose your own and tell it

 

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.