Cities, Towns, and Farms.
Read Ayers, American Passages, Chapter 11: Panic and Boom, 1837-1845.
Preliminary Exam.
The exam will include an events quiz and a paragraph
essay based on materials in the SHDB and our other assignments to this point.
See the
Exam hints page for additional
information.
The Experience of Slavery (I)
Read the review of Sally E. Hadden, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas.
Read the Last Will of Sam. M. Green, (Greenville County, SC., 1826) for
what it reveals about the fate of slave families.
View the graph of runaway slave ads from Greenville newspapers by year and
and by month. Read the ex-slave narratives of
Charlotte Foster, Spartanburg, S.C. and
Shack Thomas, Jacksonville, Fla. Read
the piece by Charles Davidson on
"Slavery in the
Old South" from CSAnet/PointSouth.com. Analyze a table of comparative
survival rates of antebellum slaves and mid-century New Englanders.
There will be a showing of the movie Amistad on the Furman network at 4:00 p.m. and at 10:00 p.m. today, channel 15.
Members of the RED discussion group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
The Experience of Slavery (II);
Reintroduction
to the History Engine.
Re-introduction to the
History Engine with Rachel Shapiro of the Virginia Center for Digital History.
You will find it helpful to look over the
Research advice page on the
History Engine website before class begins.
We will discuss the movie Amistad in class today. Search the History Engine for the keyword "runaway," reading at least five entries.
Members of the GREEN and BLUE discussions group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
Nation-Building at Home and Abroad.
Read Ayers, Chapter 12: Expansion and Reaction, 1846-1854.
Review the SHDB for the years 1846-1854.
You may optionally read the essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"
The American Scholar," (1837).
Members of the PURPLE discussion group will need to post comments to the Course Discussion Board before class.
You must send me the URL address for your research journal by 5:00 pm today. See the SHDB/History Engine assignment page for more information.
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