HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Orlando Patterson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Serfdom
23 Jul 2013
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The slave trade and brief talk about research paper: teach you how to research, how to write papers, focus not upon topic, but learning how to do it. *looking for an effort- don"t except to succeed perfectly- expect to try: explain what topic is about: freedom, need to explain what you"re doing. Good examples of historiography: st bartholomew"s day. The slave trade: help explain events, critical evaluation of sources- most important, differences and similarities of past societies, reveal tensions within american society, prominent american scholar, trying to get back into house. Professor henry louis gates house : neighbor: two black men with backpacks are trying to break into a. Incident ended with gates getting arrested, then released later when charges dropped. Downplayed the roles of europeans: not his intentions. Middle ages: replaced by serfdom- tied to the land, cannot move. The scale of it, number of people involved: 2.
