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August 9, 2020
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American History Slavery and Racism, Harriet Jacob

Here is the prompt for the third paper which is due by Monday night, May 25:

Write a 3-4 page paper addressing  ONE of the following topics.  Please use 1-inch margins and  11 or 12 point font.  Be sure to give your paper a title.

1 – What does Harriet Jacobs narrative reveal about solidarity and tension among enslaved people? How does Jacobs regard plantation slaves? On what basis does she trust some enslaved people and not others. 

2 – Harriet Jacobs was an astute critic of slavery and racism.  Analyze her critique of racism by focusing not only on her  experience in North Carolina, but also (even more importantly) on her description of life in the North.

Reading: https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html

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