East Falls Campus History Essay

Description

• Answer the following questions based on your reading of the book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave:
  • Provide three specific passages that struck you as significant—or interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing, sad…What was memorable?
  • Why was it memorable?
  • How can it directly be connected to history and the time period in which we are studying?
  PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS:
  • Douglass, F., & Stepto, R. B. (2009). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. (Links to an external site.) Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
  • Dix, D. (2006). I Tell What I Have Seen —The reports of asylum reformer Dorothea Dix (Links to an external site.). American Journal of Public Health, 96(4), 622-624.
  • Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (Links to an external site.) & “Solitude of Self” (Links to an external site.) by E. C. Stanton
  ARTICLES & WEBSITES:
  • Hogan, L. (2008). A time for silence: William Lloyd Garrison and the “Woman Question” at the 1840 world anti-slavery convention (Links to an external site.). Gender Issues, 25(2), 63-79.