Part Three: Democratization and Development

Mon., Oct. 28 New Frontiers, New Markets

Distribution of Second Paper Assignment

Wed., Oct. 30 Discussion

• Required Reading:
  A Midwife's Tale
• Boyer, Enduring Vision, ch. 8
• Recommended Web Site: African-American Mosaic: Colonization
  Noon or Evening: A Midwife's Tale

Fri., Nov. 1 The Battles of Jacksonian Democracy

Mon., Nov. 4 The Second Great Awakening and Social Reform with special reference to the origins of Oberlin

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  Second Position Paper Due

Wed., Nov. 6 Discussion Sections: Early Oberlin

• Required Reading:
  • Document: Covenant of the Oberlin Colony
  • Boyer, Enduring Vision, ch. 9-10
• Recommended Web Site: History of the Cherokee
  
• Questions: What explains the pattern of support for, and opposition to, Cherokee removal within the United States? within the Cherokee nation? Which side do you think made the better case? What were the most significant consequences of removal?
  

Fri., Nov. 8 Launching the Industrial Revolution

Mon., Nov. 11 The South: A Separate Civilization?

• Recommended Web Sites:
  • Documenting the American South
    
  • Excerpts from Slave Narratives, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
    
  • Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library, Duke University
    

Wed., Nov. 13 Discussion Sections

• Required Reading:
  
  • Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, entire
    
  • Boyer, Enduring Vision, ch. 11-12
    
• Recommended Web Site: Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center Homepage
• Questions: Nineteenth-century American slavery has been interpreted as a "total institution" that robbed slaves of their self-esteem and made resistance virtually impossible. On the basis of Douglass's account, do you agree or disagree with this interpretation?
  

Fri., Nov. 15 Radical Impulses: Abolitionism and Feminism

 
• Recommended Web Sites:
  • Abolition Debate in the 1831-32 Virginia Assembly
  • African-American Mosaic: Abolition