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Assignment #1
Sources: Textbook: pgs. 297-328 Document: Lowell Factory Rules 1848).
Assignment #2 Sources: Textbook pgs. 329-355 Document packet: “Women and Antebellum Reform” Reading: “The Cult of Domesticity” Terms:
Assignment #3 Sources: Textbook 360-377 Document Packet: “The Southern View of Slavery” Terms:
Assignment #4 Source: Textbook: Varying Viewpoints: What was the true nature of slavery? pgs. 377-78 VARYING VIEWPOINTS Nature of Slavery Read the Varying Viewpoints essay and address ONE of the following questions: 1. According to historian Eugene Genovese, what motivated southern slave-owners to embrace “a strange form of paternalism” toward their slaves? *** Do you agree with the authors that this paternalistic attitude had the effect of subverting the “racist underpinnings” of the slave society?
2. Although economic historians have demonstrated that slavery was still a profitable proposition at the time of the Civil War, it was dying out as an institution in other places around the world. *** Do you have any thoughts as to what would have happened to slavery in America in the absence of a Civil War?
3. Slaves were purposefully kept illiterate and therefore left few written records of their life on the plantations. Technology for audio and video recordings was unavailable and few travelers from the North recorded observations on slave treatment, lifestyle, or culture. *** If you were a historian trying to make conclusions about these subjects, what types of sources would you consult? Do you think an “objective” picture of southern slavery is possible to construct?
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