Analyze chattel slavery as the integrated economic + social + legal system of the US South 1850 — cotton kingdom, 3.95M enslaved per 1860 Census, Atlantic + global cotton commodity chain — refusing 'slavery was unprofitable and dying' framing
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~5 min
hist.g8.f.ex_06
Short Answer
Prompt
Name 2 ways Jacobs 1861 documents experiences Douglass 1845 does not.
How it's presented
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Answer criteria
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rubric
criteria
- Gendered violence / sexual predation by enslaver (Norcom)
- Cross-generational labor of women protecting children
- 7-year crawlspace self-confinement as form of self-emancipation
Hints
- Jacobs is enslaved Black woman; Douglass is enslaved Black man.
- Consider gendered + reproductive dimensions.
Misconceptions to watch
- Treating Jacobs as 'less important' than Douglass narrative
- Missing intersectional framing
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