The “Peculiar Institution” in the American South
Objectives
Assignment Instructions
FIRST:Watch the Crash Course US History video below:
READ: Chapter 11 of the textbook, Eric Foner’s Give Me Liberty. Skim through when you get a chance, or know that the information is there when you need to reference it.
FINALLY: Read the linked primary source document collection in the order and complete the writing assignment.
This week’s assignment is to complete a DBQ, or document-based question. The document attached in the order will take you to a Word Document with a few questions to be answered using at least four of the documents featured in the assignment document. Written responses must be one page, double-spaced (about 250-300 words).
There are no formal citations required, but I am looking that you reference and draw examples/primary source evidence from the documents. Your citations can, for this week only, look like this:
One pillar of slave culture was Christianity, which promised its practitioners peace and rest after a lifetime of enslavement and pain. The popular funerary spiritual “Roll, Jordan, Roll” references the Biblical river Jordan as a symbol for death, the most common escape from a lifetime of slavery and oppression (Document 17).
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