Essay Assignment: Read all of the secondary sources and select one of the primary documents listed below. Write an essay in which you develop an argument about what your analysis of the document allows you to understand about gender in the 19th century United States. As part of your argument, explain how your analysis of the document adds to or challenges the information and ideas about gender in the secondary sources. Cite all your sources (primary and secondary) using APA style at the end of the essay.
Primary Source:
Douglass, F. (1865). What the Black Man Wants. (Speech.) Retrieved from http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2946
Secondary Sources (Read All)
Winter, T. (2004). Industrialization. In B. Carroll, (Ed.) American masculinities: an historical encyclopedia. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Available as a PDF attachment under “Secondary and Primary Sources Reading” and on e-reserve through the Baruch Library).
From the American Yawp: Changes in gender and family life, Womens rights in Antebellum America, Reconstruction and women. (Locke, J. and Wright, B. (Eds). (2017). The American yawp. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com)
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