first, read the book
Alan Taylor, American Colonies
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877
in the essay answer this question connected with book:
From the colonial period into the nineteenth century, it could be argued that slavery (in a broad sense) and freedom developed side-by-side and defined the colonies and then the U.S. To what extent do you think this is true? use these two topics to arrange your argument.
a. Relations between European Americans and Native Americans
b. The development of African and African American slavery
should use those two topic (a and b) to answer the question.
please give your thesis (main idea )in the introduction and conclude it in conclusion.
In your response, state a thesis and make an argument based on course materials (readings, lectures, films).
Responses should be very specific and clearly connect with course materials. You should include at least one reference to a primary document.
corse material:
Alan Taylor, American Colonies
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877
you should cite at least one from primary document:
primary document:
Primary documents: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Indians of the Rio Grande (1528-1536);
Bartolomé de Las Casas, Of the Island of Hispaniola (1542)
Jacques Marquette, The Mississippi Voyage of Jolliet and Marquette
(1673); John Smith, The Starving Time (1624); The Laws of Virginia (1610-11).
Primary documents: Thomas Mun, from England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664);
Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration (1676).
Primary documents: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630); Excerpt from Trial of
Anne Hutchinson (1637).
Primary documents: Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750); Elizabeth
Sprigs, Letter to Her Father (1756); Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788);
Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788).
Primary documents: William Bull, Report on the Stono Rebellion Report (1739); James
Oglethorpe, Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733).
Primary documents: William Byrd II, Diary (1709); M. Crevecoeur, from Letters from an
American Farmer (1782).
Primary documents: Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741); Benjamin
Franklin, Upon Hearing George Whitefield Preach (1771).
John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768); Boston Massacre Article
(1770) (handout); Patrick Henry, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (1775).
Primary documents: Judith Sargent Murray, “On the Equality of the Sexes” (1790); Benjamin
Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791); Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10
(1788); George Mason, “Objections to This Constitution of Government” (1787); Molly
Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792); Petition for Access to Education (1787).
Primary documents: The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836); Mary Paul, Letters
Home (1845, 1846); Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829); Memorial of
the Cherokee Nation (1830); Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833); Nat Turner,
Confession (1831).
Primary documents: Charles Finney, Religious Revival (1835); William Lloyd Garrison, from
The Liberator (1831); Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (1848); John L.
O’Sullivan, The Great Nation of Futurity (1845); Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican War
(1847); Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852); Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857);
Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852); George Fitzhugh, The Blessings of
Slavery (1857); John Brown, Address to the Virginia Court (1859).
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