MIDTERM EXAM
While searching through an attic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you discover the following items:
a. a journal by Lord Cedric Tavishment entitled "A Visit to a Slave Plantation" published in 1847.
b. the account books of a sugar plantation located 10 miles outside of Baton Rouge. (Years: 1844-1847)
c. the diary of a fugitive slave from a plantation near Baton Rouge.
d. a book entitled "The Best Years Of Our Lives,"
a memoir by Colonel Jebbediah Cotton published in
1880 in Charleston, S.C. Cotton owned one of the
largest sugar plantations outside Baton Rouge.
e. the attached photograph [click here]
Evaluate the importance of each of these documents both individually
and collectively for your forthcoming work A History of Slavery in the
American South.
This exam will be a take-home. Responses should be typed and handed in on Thursday the 28th. Since we shall discuss the test at that time, you should hand the exam in on time. There will be a 20% penalty if the exam is late.