27 Mar Explain how and why slavery expanded over time
Week 4 Instructions
Please review the links
The Rise of Cotton: Crash Course Black American History #13 (youtube.com)
Women’s Experience Under Slavery: Crash Course Black American History #11 (youtube.com)
PBS Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009) (youtube.com)
Readings available from the class:
https://www.thoughtco.com/king-cotton-1773328
https://archive.org/details/incidentsinlifeo1861jaco
Choose one of the below for your main post. The initial post with well referenced facts is due by Wednesday, 11:55 p.m. ET. (in the subject line, place a creative, enticing title, the question number, and your answer). Two peer responses are due by Friday, 11:55 p.m. ET–respond to at least one student who answered a different question from you. The answers should come from your textbook, the lectures, videos, and the research you conducted in the APUS Library.
1. Slavery and the South: Slavery had many levels, job roles and ties to the economics of the South. Analyze the different types of duties and roles that enslaved people endured in America? How did the slave affect the economics of the South? How did the slave play a part in the nation’s financial success?
2. Explain how and why slavery expanded over time.
3. Analyze the impact of plantation slavery on African American slave families.
4. What were the limits of freedom on African Americans in the North? What were the characteristics of northern black communities? What institutions did African Americans rely on most?
5. Analytically compare and contrast African American life in the South versus the North. What about the Upper South and the Deep South?
Last part: At the end of your post please comment in one paragraph on what you have learned that was new, surprising, and interesting.
