Assignment Task:
Reference:
- Lesson 12 The Abolition of Slavery in the Americas and the Struggle for Equal Rights
- Resources: Strayer, 478-484 (chapt. 16).
- Isham G. Bailey, "Sharecropper Contract, 1867," The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History.
- Ida B. Wells," Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (1970)," in eds. Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil, The Women's Eyes, vol. 2, 5th ed., 325-327.
- Legislature of Minas Gerais, "Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900," in The Brazil Reader, 146-147.
- Denise Helly, The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba, in ed. Nicole Foote, The Caribbean History Reader, 187-188.
Strayer Questions
Q1. Why did the Spanish American struggle for independence occur decades later and last years longer than those of British North America?
Q2. What accounts for the end of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century?
Q3. How did the end of slavery affect the lives of the former slaves?
Isidore Questions
Q4. What was the nature of sharecropping contracts in the U.S. south after the Civil War? (Bailey)
Q5. According to Ida B. Wells' autobiography, what was the underlying reason for why Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart were lynched by a white mob?
Q6. What was life like for most slaves in Brazil following abolition? (Legislature of Minas Gerais)
Q7. After slavery was abolished, why did many Brazilian states issue new laws defining vagrancy as a crime? (Legislature of Minas Gerais)
Q8. Based on the Helly document, what were work conditions like for Chinese workers in Cuba? (Provide specific details from the Helly reading.)