Assignment:
Please adapt the paper to coincide with the instructions listed here as references ONLY? Strictly monitored for inaccuracies. Must retain the scholarly, well written college level content as informed article on the three chosen specific topics within the book and not a book report! 4 to 6 pages
New Paper PROPOSED TITLE: The Society of the Old South
History
IMPORTANT NOTE:
You May only make Useof the following materials listed; (3) readings&two books resources ONLY (but Northup's "Twelve Years A Slave" primarily):
Twelve Years A Slave, by Solomon Northrup, (BOOK)
"The South: A Concise History, VOL 1, by Jeanette Keith (BOOK)
Select documents: Letters of William Gilmore Simms, 1826 (READING)
Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney, "The Antebellum Southern Herdsman: A Reinterpretation," Journal of Southern History 41, no. 2 (May 1975): 147-166. (READING)
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.(READING)
ASSIGNMENT
1. What details about the society of the Old South, at least in the history of the state of Louisiana, does Solomon Northup reveal in his narrative Twelve Years a Slave? Please make note of the geographical location of Louisiana??
2. Pick three from among the subjects discussed in the readings (listed above) for this part of the course:
- Agriculture
- Economy
- Life of slaves
- Life of southern whites
- Class distinctions among whites
- The urban-rural divide
- Transportation in the South,
- Culture
- Religion
- Honor
For each of the three subjects you choose, utilizing and citing the historical information of the content in the articles/ readings, discuss how Northup portrays each of those 3 subjects (of your choice), in his narrative? Citing its placement in the assigned contentresources listed for this assignment? ONLY!
4 to 6 pages