TWO-PART ASSIGNMENT HIST
Part one PAPER Instructions
Paper – The Rise of Slavery in Virginia History of the Old
South
Use the following two articles: Respond to the (4) questions
in a detailed essay? Distinguish/ List the questions prior to its answer? This
answer must include the 4 points in the instructions, completely?
Edmund S. Morgan, “Slavery and Freedom: The American
Paradox,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 59, Issue 1 (June 1972): 5-29.
Warren M. Billings, “The Law of Servants and Slaves in
Seventeenth-Century Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 99,
no. 1 (January 1991): 45-62.
1. How do Morgan and Billings explain the development of
slavery in Virginia? 2. Where exactly do they differ in their explanations? 3.
Which one offers a more plausible explanation? 4. Why, in 3-5 pages?
PART TWO – Remarks in 5 – 7 paragraphs, articulate Jeanette
Keith, concept regarding early American history of the early south in the
Introduction to her textbook The South, a Concise History, Vol. 1. It
stipulates and provides three categories of themes that she sees at work in the
Early History of the North American South (pages 9-12): chose one as a topic to
highlight & explain in detail one of them and its impact as a theme to
highlight on the Early South in North America? All of the themes are connected
and reference to each of them is acceptable as long as the focus is clearly on
ONE of them!
a) race, class, and gender
b) religion
c) defense of liberty
Using the scholarly reading and journal articles to
highlight and explain an example of one of these three themes. Must be relevant, competent, professionally
written, college level content, that is coherent and plagiarism free, in final
edit, free of errors, revisions, following the instructions completely?
