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I believe that to have interfered as I have done as I have always freely admitted I have done in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit; so let it be done! (John Brown)

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.” (final words–on a note handed to a guard)

 

http://hist313.ferrellhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Total-Slave-Population-in-US-1790-1860.pdf

 

“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).

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).