Freedom: Black Expectations vs White Reality
Description
In a 3-5 page essay using the following articles in Eric Foner’s Voices of Freedom, Vol II & Prof. Heningburg’s Readings in US History compare and contrast the expectations of the Freedmen and Women with the reality the white power structure wanted to maintain. This is not a recitation, a mere relation of facts. It is an analysis of the primary source documents listed below. Make sure that you properly document all of your assertions and conclusions.
Petition of Black Residents of Nashville (1865) in Voices of Freedom Vol II, page 1.
Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) in Voices of Freedom Vol II, page 4.
Black Codes (1865), in Readings in US History, 3rd ed., page 153.
Black Codes of Mississippi (1865), in Readings in US History, 3rd ed., page 156.
Louisiana Black Codes (1865), in Readings in US History, 3rd ed., page 161.
Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874), in Voices of Freedom Vol II, page 24.
*If you are using Voices of Freedom 5th Edition, please search for the articles in the table of contents.
Use the information in the History Term Paper Module to write and format your paper.
Your paper must be in MS Word or PDF format, have a cover page, have page numbers, one-inch margins, printed in black ink, double-spaced, have citations – either footnotes or parenthetical references and bibliography. Submission must be through Canvas upload mechanism provided in this assignment. Please refer to the “History Paper Grading Rubric” in the “History 321 Term Paper Specifications Module.” I suggest that you review the “Things to Remember When Writing a History Term Paper” PowerPoint presentation also in the History 321 Term Paper Module.
