Document Analysis Assignment: Runaway Servants/Runaway Slaves
(This assignment is modeled on recommendations from the Virtual Jamestown website at: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/ (Links to an external site.). )
Step1:
By searching the internet, students will collect primary source documents in the form of newspaper advertisements for “runaway” enslaved peoples and indentured servants. Share the sites you find in the “Runaway Newspaper Advertisements” discussion thread that is part of Module 1. Each student should contribute at least two sites that have at least one advertisement from the era of forced labor in America.
Step 2:
Students will gather the following information from five (5) ads about runaway indentures servants and five (5) ads about runaway enslaved peoples: (1) similarities and differences in the lives of enslaved peoples and indentured servants, (2) similarities and differences in the skills/jobs of enslaved peoples and indentured servants, (3) similarities and/or differences in the way the authors of these ads perceived enslaved peoples and indentured servants.
Step 3:
Students will use evidence from primary sources (newspaper advertisements) and from secondary sources (Murolo and Dunn) to write a 2-page documented essay in response to the following questions: How did owners perceive enslaved peoples compared with how they perceived indentured servants? Why were the attitudes towards enslaves peoples and indentured servants similar/different?
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