What role does religion play in the lives of slaves and slaveholders? To what purpose is Scripture used to both discipline and offer emancipatory hope to the enslaved?

Potential essay topics.
What role does religion play in the lives of slaves and slaveholders? To what purpose is Scripture used to both discipline and offer emancipatory hope to the enslaved?

Format:
1000 words
Double space
12-point font
Standard written English
One-inch margins
Chicago style footnote citations. Do not cite in MLA style.

Content:
Your paper must have a main idea/thesis/argument that answers the prompt.
Your paper must be carefully edited. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling count.
Cultivate your own voice/style. You will be writing a lot of papers in college, so find your voice. This means papers by different students on the same prompt should be distinct. It does not mean the papers are about you.

Do not write about yourself and do not use a conversational tone or self-references. Do not use the first person.
You must demonstrate understanding and familiarity with Week 5-6 course readings: American Yawp, Chapters 9-12 and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative. You must use evidence from both sources or your paper will not pass.
These are reading response essays, not research papers. There should be no other source material beyond American Yawp and Douglass; do not summarize content you have read on the internet.
Any paper with no citations is an F paper.

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