In the mid-nineteenth century, several reforms took place in American society. Two of the reforms that led to political and social change were abolition and suffrage. For paper #3, Please choose one of these reforms and a corresponding text to explore the topic fully.
Abolition: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave. By Frederick Douglass, 1845. https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Douglass/Narrative/Douglass_Narrative.pdf or see copy on page.
Suffrage: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman. By Sarah Grimke, 1838. Source found on Google books: https://books.google.com/books?id=6w0LbHT6Ei0C&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
Within these texts, how did the author deal with the reform of the time (abolition of suffrage)? Read the work you chose and consider several key points to set the context and the importance of the material presented. Did the authors seem conscious of its audience when preparing the manuscript? Do you think the material contained within is exaggerated or is it realistic? What do you consider to be the most significant point of the text chosen? How do you explain the importance of this work to a student of today?
A People and a Nation can be used to set the time context and support any argument made or conclusion drawn. Each paper should be at least 1000 words, typed, double-spaced, and spell-checked. Use only the sources provided—no outside sources are allowed. In addition, papers should be clear, coherent, and precise as possible. Generally, that does not mean that the rough/first draft is also the final draft of the paper. Citation references should follow standard historical practice and samples are included on the LearningHub module.
After reading the sources listed, identify several (3-5) major themes of the accounts. Choose documents from each chapter to use for your examples. Use these sources and construct your paper to analyze the documents and the time period. Themes can include location, treatment, language used to describe situation, and bias of each author. The topics are endless—only limited to what the sources tell you. Once you have identified the themes you want to analyze, read and take notes, pull out the examples that best exemplify the themes you are analyzing. Consult the text book to qualify conclusions and set the time context. As you set up your paper, remember the comments from the first writing assignment—
• Set the historical context
• Introduce your subject
• lay out the thesis and order of your paper
• Avoid any personal bias or the use of I
• Paraphrase and use your own words
• Analyze the event in history, do not just summarize the document
Please use the following footnote format:
Book—
Corporal Eugene Kennedy, Company “E,” 303rd Engineers, Seventy-Eight Division, AEF, untitled diary, in Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader in American History, Volume 2: Since 1865, 3rd edition, ed. Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012), 133.
Website—
“Lucky Charlie: Excerpts from the Personal Memoirs of Charles Leo Boucher,” Transcribed and Edited with Annotations by Charles E. Merrill, 2002, accessed October 2, 2013, in The archive of war diaries online, http://www.luckycharlie.com/.
Article—
Marla R. Miller, “Gender, Artisanry, and Craft Tradition in Early New England: The View through the Eye of a Needle,” The William and Mary Quarterly 60, no. 4 (October 2003): 743-76, accessed September 2, 2016, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3491698.
