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September 15

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with the documents - Infering and corroborating evidence about life for slaves (Activity III)'

Corroborating: 1. Each of the sources contain material that is simply informational. This material includes matters of money, materials, and land. Each of the sources also contain some sort of indication of the health of family, friends, and slaves.…

September 15

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with the documents - Infering and corroborating evidence about life for slaves (Activity III)'

Monitoring: 1. In order to find out how slaves' deaths were treated during this time, we could look at the perspective of a slave. It would be interesting to read a letter written by the slave's family member sent to another family member after the…

September 15

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with the documents - Infering and corroborating evidence about life for slaves (Activity III)'

Inferring: 1. It is suggested that Charles Lewellyn works under Paul Cameron because it seems that it is his job to write to Cameron to inform him of the happenings on the plantation. It is also suggested that the slaves' living conditions were terr…

September 15

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with the documents - Infering and corroborating evidence about life for slaves (Activity III)'

Summarizing: 1. These are letters that were written by Paul Cameron to his father and Charles Lewellyn to Paul Cameron. 2. The letters provide information on the health of the family, friends, and slaves of the writer. Most of the deaths that are re…

September 15

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with documents - Contextualizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity II)'

2. The other sources are from 1972 and 1993. These sources were produced to explain the lives of domestic slaves as opposed to the slaves who were expected to work in the fields. In 1972, Blassingame wrote that although domestic slaves had better fo…

September 7

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with documents - Contextualizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity II)'

1. This is a piece written by Doc Edwards. He was born in Staggville, North Carolina, and strongly identifies himself as a slave. He was born into slavery under the rule of "Marse Paul" and spent most of his time growing up as a cook in his master's…

September 7

Julie Cox replied to John Lee's discussion 'Working with documents - Summarizing historical information about life for slaves (Activity I)'

This is a letter from Paul Cameron to his father. In this letter, Paul Cameron first tells his father about a slave's child that died several dies earlier. He then informs his father of the bad weather and the trip that his plans to make to both Hil…

September 7

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September 7