APRIL+14,+2010


 * NOTES FROM TODAY'S SESSION (P. Gibbon)**

__**Reading assignments, to be read by July 6, 2010**__
 * Assignment (due July, 6 2010)**
 * Dred Scott, by Paul Finleman, pp. 1-52, 127-182
 * American Slavery, by Peter Kolchin, pp. 93-249
 * Battle Cry of Freedom, by James McPherson, pp. 1-170
 * What Hath God Wrought, by Daniel Walker Howe, Chapter 16 & Finale
 * Narrative, by Frederick Douglass
 * "Douglass, Slavery and the Constitution" (handout)


 * __Paper:__** Based on Douglass' Narrative and the Douglass handout, in a 4 to 5 page paper, describe what we learn about slavery from the Narrative and how and why Douglass' views on the Constitution shift.