Colonial America
Paper Prompt #1 How did planters connect gender, race, and slavery in colonial America? What role did womens labor have in production? How did African and African American women resist slavery? Prompt #2 From the following list, choose three regions that we have focused on: The Caribbean Virginia and the Chesapeake South Carolina The North/New York How did European and Americans approach slavery in these regions? What techniques did they utilize to establish authority? How did the enslaved population resist or adapt to law codes passed to regulate their behavior? Prompt #3 Taking a material culture approach, analyze the commodities that enslaved individuals produced in the colonial Atlantic World. How did specific crops dictate labor routines? How did specific types of cultivation limit freedom, or provide avenues to assert independence? This essay should use the readings to better understand the rhythms of plantation life. Papers must be written in 12-point font Times New Roman and double spaced. Please include a title and page numbers. All papers should be formatted to normal one inch margins on each side. Please use parenthetical citations, such as (Berlin, Making Slavery, Marking Race, 20).
