How did the American Revolution and the enlightenment ideals that helped to inspire it affect slavery and enslaved peoples during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries(i.e. 1760 to 1815)?
The questions are crafted to enable you to answer using only your accumulated knowledge and the course materials. Your answers should draw heavily on specific examples and arguments from a range of course materials(lectures, books, documents, films)but not on any outside sources, Wikipedia or otherwise.
Using the most relevant examples from the materials in this course, answer two of the following questions. Each answer should appear in a short essay of roughly two double-spaced pages (12-point font, standard margins). Remember to support your answer with specific evidence, properly cited. Footnotes will not count against your page limit:
How did the American Revolution and the enlightenment ideals that helped to inspire it affect slavery and enslaved peoples during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries(i.e. 1760 to 1815)?
Using the experiences of enslaved women examined in this course and its sources, explain how slavery affected women in ways different from men. (Although it is a fictional narrative, you should use Lawrence Hill’s novel as one of your sources.)
The essay should not compare men and women
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