Reform Response due Wed.

Choose one thing in America that you feel needs to be reformed. Think of a society wide problem that we as a nation need to fix. This could be local, state, or national. Please address what the problem is, why it is a problem, and how you would fix the problem. This response should be a page in length.

Finish slave narrative assignment

You may have until Monday to complete the slave narrative assignment. 3 summaries of American slaves.

Quiz moved to Tuesday

Quiz moved to Tuesday of next week. The study guide and other information can be found on the Wiki and in your Google account.

Slave Narratives

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snvoices00.html

Harriet Jacobs Narrative
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jacobs/jacobs.html

Frederick Douglass

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.

Hw for Wed

Please complete the reading and questions from Frederick Douglass' Fifth of July Speech. Find it here: http://mrduffhistoryclass.wikispaces.com/Reform+and+Slavery+1

Quiz next Monday

There will be a quiz next Monday. The study guide is on the wiki, in your Google account and on this blog as well as in hard copy.