New Paper #2 PROPOSED TITLE: The Society of the Old South
History
Use the following listed; (3) articles & book( Northup's "Twelve Years A Slave" primarily):
Twelve Years A Slave, by Solomon Northrup, (BOOK)
Selected documents to be used ONLY:
1. Article - Letters of William Gilmore Simms, 1826
2. Article by Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney, "The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation," Journal of Southern History 41, no. 2 (May 1975): 147-166.
3. Article - Dennis C. Rousey, "Aliens in the WASP Nest: Ethnocultural Diversity in the Antebellum Urban South," Journal of American History 79, no. 1 (June 1992): 152-164.
ASSIGNMENT
For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative "Twelve Years A Slave"? Citing its placement within the new content that is created for this assignment as the subjects are referenced in the book?
6-8 pages
FIRST ; For each of the three or four subjects you choose, remember utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the scholarly journal articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative?" Citing" its placement of the assigned resources within the new content that is created for this assignment? "THIS instruction IS A MAJOR COMPONET OF THE ASSIGNMENT"?
6-8 pages
SECONDLY; Develop a 6-8 page essay, using the resources listed above exclusively that is professionally written, articulate, competent college content, mindful of inaccuracies, in final draft mode, error free, no editing or revisions necessary.
1. What details about the society of the Old South, at least in Louisiana, does Solomon Northup reveal in his narrative Twelve Years a Slave that directly includes the subjects listed below? Please make note of the geographical location of Louisiana??
2. Pick three from among the subjects( listed below) discussed in the readings (listed above) for this part of the course:
SECOND; For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the journal articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), are referenced in his narrative, "Twelve Years A Slave"? Citing those placements of the subjects, within the new content that is created for this assignment?
6-8 pages
SUBJECTS
Agriculture
Life of southern whites
Class distinctions among whites
The urban-rural divide
For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, listed as resources above, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative?
Citing its placement in the assigned resources within the new content that is created for this assignment?
6-8 pages