For this activity, you will work in groups to examine a source and think about what type of source it is, who wrote it, and what information you can gather from it. Each group will examine a different source.
Find the link to your group's Google Doc below and click to open it. Your assigned source is linked at the top of the Doc. Click the link and then click "PDF Full Text" or "View Full Text" to view the source. Work together to answer the questions on the worksheet.
Note: You do not need to read the source from start to finish. The questions prompt you to look at specific parts of the source.
Pope, Justin. 2021. “A Slave at the Press: Peter Fleet and Reports of Slave Unrest in the Boston Evening-Post, 1735–1758.” Slavery & Abolition 42 (4): 691–709. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2021.1973257.
Bouchard, Stephanie. 2020. “Splitting States.” American History 55 (5): 58–65.
Lynerd, Benjamin T, and Jack Wartell. 2023. “‘A Natural Right to the Soil’: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom.” Journal of Black Studies 54 (1): 62–82. doi:10.1177/00219347221139973.
Kellerman, Christopher J. 2023. “How the Catholic Church Reversed Course on Slavery.” America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture 228 (3): 20–25.