Slavery Revolt - LSC-Kingwood

Read The Fires of Jubilee and pick an aspect for research. The following ideas should help inspire you:

1. Compare Turner’s revolt to another American slave revolt such as the Gabriel Prosser rebellion, Denmark Vesey planned rebellion, or the Stono rebellion.
2. Explore the master/slave relationship in the South.
3.Describe the impact of slavery on slave institutions such as religion and marriage.
4.What techniques did slaves use in order to preserve their culture? How successful were they?
5.Explore the relationship between the abolitionist movement and Nat Turner’s revolt? Why did the South believe the abolitionists were to blame for the revolt?
6.Compare reportage at the time of the event to what we know now.
7.How did the Nat Turner revolt change the relationship between the North and South? How did both respond to the revolt?

Once you decide on a topic, please get the instructor’s approval using via course mail. Your research assignment should consist of 4-5 full textual pages (double-spaced) plus a Works Cited page. Use a standard 10- or 12-point font with one-inch margins. A minimum of four sources plus the Oates book is required, with at least one from each of the following: a historical monograph (book), a scholarly journal, and an academic Internet site. Encyclopedias and dictionaries are not acceptable as sources. All sources must appear in the Works Cited page, and those that do must be cited in the paper. Documentation must be parenthetical, and all forms must follow those prescribed in the MLA Handbook. Save your research project in rich text or as a word document and submit it as an attached file, using the course WebCT mail feature. Remember that your assignment should include an introduction with a thesis statement and a conclusion. Check the course calendar for the due date. Fifteen points will be deducted from any late assignment, and no assignment will be accepted more than one week after the due date. The evaluation of this research assignment will focus not only on content but also on clarity, organization, coherence, and use of Standard Written English.

Warnings: Plagiarism is theft of another writer’s words or ideas and will receive a zero.

•  REF  E185 .A253 1993  The African American Encyclopedia. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1993. | Multivolume set. Search by keywords.
• REF E185.2 .A25 1996  African American History in The Press 1851 - 1899. V.1. NY: Gale, 1996. | Excellent source of illustrated newspaper articles of the time.
• REF E185 .B573 1990  American Historical Images on File: The Black Experience. NY: Facts on File, 1990. | Copyright illustrations and documents
• E441 .B47 2003  Generations of Captivity: a History of African-American slaves/ Ira Berlin. Belknap.  Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
• E441 .S36 2000  Slavery in America: from Colonial Times to the Civil War/ Dorothy and Carl Schneider. Facts on File, 2000.
• PS374 .S725 D38 1999eb  Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgement [electronic resource]:  Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection/Mary Kemp Davis. NetLibrary 1999.  Access this electornic book through the Library Catalog.
• PN 1997 .A44 1999   Amistad [videodisc]. DreamWorks, 1998. |.

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Biography Reference Bank | 45,000 biographies of people from antiquity to the present.

Academic Search Complete | Collection of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles. Many scholarly.

African American Odyssey: Slavery   |  Library of Congress original documents on slavery. Also, search using 'slave insurrections' A good search through this entire site will show many documents from abolitionists, slave songs, and much much more.
History of Slavery  |  Wonderful site with timeline, sound. Good for background information.
Documenting the American South   |   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill houses a digital collection of original documents, especially first person narratives. Spend a little time here.
Nat Turner   |   PBS site containing the text of The Confessions of Nat Turner plus other text and drawings
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery  |    Another Library of Congress site worth looking at. Contains original anti-slavery newspaper article and maps.
Africans in America  |   PBS information about the Stono Rebellion. Links to several primary sources.
From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Confessions of Nat Turner    Complete text of  The Confessions of Nat Turner along with notes.

Nat Turner video  |  selection of videos from youtube.

Citing Sources Using MLA Style

Misuse of Sources | Extract from WRITING WITH SOURCES: A Guide for Harvard Students, by Gordon Harvey, Expository Writing Program, Copyright 1995, The President and Fellows of Harvard University Chapter Three: Misuse of Sources: 3.1 Plagiarism and 3.2 Other Ways of Misusing Sources.

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