1. Short Answers (15 points each)
Choose three of the following pairs. Identify (who, what, where, when) and discuss the historical significance of the two items in relation to each other in ½ page (single-spaced) or more. What is each item individually? What is their significance when taken in tandem? Provide reference citations for all sources of information (e.g., Foner p. 132). (10 points each)
A: The Cult of Domesticity and the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
B: Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner
C: The Nullification Crisis and the Secession Crisis
D: The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13thAmendment
E: The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise
F: John Brown and Charles Sumner
2. Essay (55 points)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl provides first-hand insight into the experiences of African Americans in and out of slavery. Compose an essay of at least 3 double-spaced pages in response to the following prompt:
Imagine you are the famous abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. As Douglass, write a book review of Harriet Jacobs’s/Linda Brent’s autobiography/novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. How does it appeal to the crusade against slavery? What abolitionist arguments does it put forth? On what grounds, according to Jacobs, should the institution of slavery be abolished?
Note: Write a formal paper with a clear thesis supported by detailed information. Whenever possible, cite historical evidence to support your argument. Your essay must explicitly draw upon Jacobs’s entire book and use specific examples. You are to consult your textbook to help contextualize Jacobs’s experiences; however, additional outside research is not to be used for your essay. As always, provide the corresponding page numbers for all sources of information.
Attached is the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
This is the link to the textbook by Foner: https://archive.org/details/give-me-liberty-an-american-history-eric-foner-z-lib.org_20220819
Please use direct quotes for the essay portion and referenced information for the short answers. This must be at a college level.
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Choose three of the following pairs. Identify appeared first on essaynook.com.