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Wed., Sept. 25. You will begin this assignment on Wednesday, September 25 and complete it on Wednesday, October 2. Read the following:
--John Barbot, Prepossessed that Europeans are Fond of Their Flesh  
--Olaudah Equiano, A Multitude of Black People Chained Together

Post to BB on the following: John Barbot claims that he is “natually compassionate” and that Europeans treated slaves much more humanely than Africans.  How would you evaluate this claim based upon a close reading of both Barbot and Equiano?   Back your position with well-thought-out arguments and evidence from the documents.  As time permits, respond to a posting by a classmate that has a somewhat different position than yours.

Some Websites of interest 

 Wed., Sept. 30 -  Finish the Barbot-Equiano assignment.  Go to the Africans in America (Public Broadcasting System) Website.  Click on the section entitled  “The Terrible Transformation, 1450-1750.”   Go to the blackboard.   Post (under "Terrible Transformation") a response explaining how the information you found might help answer the take-home midterm paper.  Your response should be several paragraphs.

Some Websites of Interest

 
Africans in America (PBS) | Excerpts from Slave Narratives | Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents (Yale) | U.S. Founding Documents (Emory University) | Constitution Page (National Archives) | "A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the Constitution" (National Archives) | Federalist Papers (Thomas)

MONDAY, OCT. 7

In the text, Who Built America, read Chapter Six.

There will be quiz on this material in class on Monday, September 17

Wed., Oct. 9 - Finish the  assignment you began on October 2.  (Go to the Africans in America (Public Broadcasting System) Website.  Click on the section entitled  “The Terrible Transformation, 1450-1750.”   Go to the blackboard.   Post (under "Terrible Transformation") a response explaining how the information you found might help answer the take-home midterm paper.  Your response should be several paragraphs.)

Some Websites of Interest 

Exploring Amistad | Africans in America (PBS) | Freedmen and Southern Society | American Slave Narratives:   An Online Anthology | Philadelphia Online: A Celebration of Black History | Excerpts from Slave Narratives | Jesuit Plantation Project (Georgetown) | Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina) | African American Mosaic (Library of Congress) | African American Perspectives: Pamphlets 1818-1907 (Library of Congress) | African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (NYPL-Schomburg) | Images of African Americans from the 19th Century (NYPL-Schomburg) | African American Women: 19th Century Manuscripts (Duke) | Levi Jordan Foundation