What do the primary sources reveal, meaning what do they tell us, about your chosen subject? When answering this question, cogitate on what was stated above in the Overview section of the prompt regarding what, why, and how.
What do the primary sources reveal, meaning what do they tell us, about your chosen subject? When answering this question, cogitate on what was stated above in the Overview section of the prompt regarding what, why, and how.
The thesis is supported by providing textual evidence in the form of quotes from primary sources that exemplify your claims and observations asserted in your essay. The thesis is developed by explaining in detail how you analyzed each quote to reach your assertions.
Skim through all the primary sources for your chosen subject; then choose five primary sources to analyze. Remember that you are only responsible for the primary sources listed in the Appendix.
Appendix:
The page numbers below refer to the page numbers of the PDF document titled “Antebellum Slavery Primary Sources” not the page numbers on the actual scanned documents.
Southern Pro Slavery Arguments
PDF page 6, Thomas Jefferson
PDF page 30, Bennet Barrow Plantation Rules
PDF page 42, James Hammond
PDF page 106, The South Vindicated from the Treason & Fanaticism of Abolitionists
African American Voices
PDF page 10, A Slave Demands that Jefferson Abolish Slavery
PDF page 26, Madison Hemings
PDF Page 33, Fanny Kemble (An English immigrant to the South writing about what slaves told her.)
PDF page 37, Nat Turner
PDF page 45, Frederick Douglass
PDF page 64, David Walker
PDF page 73, Henry “Box” Brown
PDF page 97, Harriet Jacobs
Northern Perspective
PDF page 21, Abraham Lincoln
PDF page 50, Levi Coffin (Northern Quaker writing about what slaves told him.)
PDF page 92, Carl Shurz
PDF page 103, Wm. Lloyd Garrison
