SLAVERY ESSAY

OK, this is not due for some time, but I wanted to talk a bit about it now to give you some time to think and plan and just live with the idea a bit: DUE MARCH 8

FORMAT: TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED, 3-4 PAGES, TURNED IN TO TURNITIN(more on this later)

The basic idea for the essay is that it is about slavery in the antebellum (pre-Civil War)period. To be more specific, you will be writing about some specific theme, taken from Celia or Frederick Douglass, or the WPA Narratives, or our guest lecture on friday the 5th. You should think about this as an opinion and argument piece more than an essay that traces a bunch of facts.

HERE ARE FOUR OPTIONS SO FAR. MORE WILL FOLLOW. ALSO, THINK ABOUT MAKING YOUR OWN TOPIC BASED ON SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU:

1. What was the significance of gender on the slave plantation?

2. Considering Celia, A Slave, and at least two of the Slave Narratives from the American Memory Project what role did violence play in maintaining order on the plantation?
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

3. Compare and contrast Sally Hemmings and Celia.
Here are some good sources on Hemmings:
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/lives/sallyhemings.html#
http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings-jefferson_contro.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/

4. Compare and contrast the experience of Celia or Frederick Douglass with Primo Levi during the Holocaust.