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Guided Resource Inquiry: Sample AFRS271

Steve Kutay, Ellen Jarosz, Authors

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Assignment A: Pt. 1

African-American History to 1865

Instructions:

  • Analyze one source (right) to complete the prompt below.
  • Use the navigation menu (left) to complete part 2 of this assignment.
Prompt:
As a group or as individuals select one of the primary sources listed below and displayed on this page. Write a brief essay (500 words minimum, 800 words maximum) in which you:
  • Identify the source you've chosen.
  • Determine the type of document, its creator, when it was created, and where.
  • Determine the reason for the document's production.
  • Determine the author or creator's relationship to Abolitionism in the United States in the decades leading up to the Civil War. 
  • Explain how the item contextualizes Abolitionism with respect to assigned course readings.
 
Sources:
 
 
2.  Letter from John Brown to his Wife, 1855
Available in Special Collections and Archives
 
3. Pro-Slavery Pamphlet, 1838
Available in Special Collections and Archives
4. Affidavit of Freedom, 1830
Part of Free Status Affidavits Collection, 1817-1857 
Available in Special Collections and Archives
 
5. "Schedule of Property Appraised This Day . . ." 
Part of Legal and Financial Documents on Slaves and Slavery in the United States Collection, 1756-1869 
Available in Special Collections and Archives
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