African American History to 1865
HIST 313
Please the complete evaluation form correctly. Instructions are at the top of the form and before the tracking form for September 12. (As the course is in the middle of week four of the semester, students must follow instructions. Failure to follow directions–for evaluations, for papers, for discussions, for titling, for submissions–will now affect grades.)
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“We must be extremely wary of projecting twenty-first century moral sensibilities back into the eighteenth century” (Morgan, GW article, 414).
“Sarah was no longer enslaved, but she was not free” (Menschel, 220).
“I wonder sometimes why I was not more contented than I was, and then I wonder why I was as contented as I was” (James Mars in Menschel, 221).
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Use while writing and proofreading papers. Obvious failure to use this checklist will result in a penalty on relevant paper.
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The complete calendar for the semester has been posted on this website. Please note (as indicated on the calendar) that readings are likely to change—with deletions and additions—over the course of the semester. Thus, students must check the calendar regularly. Doing so is their responsibility.
Also posted under Writing-Related are instructions for the two discussion self-evaluation essays for the semester (one due at mid-semester and one at the end of the semester).
Students have TWO discussions to cover on the evaluation form (due, as before, by 10 pm Friday). In other words, submit one form, not two. Please follow instructions on the top of the form for handling TWO discussions.
On the zero-to-ten scales, indicate each discussion separately. You can put the date or day under the relevant number, or use color-code highlighting of dates or . . . . How you do it is not important; what is important is that you “rate” each discussion separately and that your rating/identification is clear.
As for the text elaboration: you might comment on the week as a whole (“This week I was consistently involved, playing multiple roles in each discussion”) and follow up with specifics (“For example, on Tuesday, I . . . . while on Thursday I . . .”).
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The following brief film explains the need for and impact of the cotton gin from the 1780s to the 1860s.
This second brief film is a useful look at the cotton gin itself. But . . . .
Notice the background music; it suggests the lack of concern for mid-twentieth century black field workers and disregard for antebellum slaves. The reference to “pioneer families” being the ones who got the seeds out of cotton also reveals that disregard. The suggestion is a Gone with the Wind image of happy slaves suited only for servile work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAK65N4ruc