for your 150-word short assignment this week, I would like you to read an article focusing on the experiences of free African Americans in New Orleans, which had the largest population of free blacks in North America in the colonial era. The file is labeled “New Orleans” After you have read the assigned article, submit a 150-word answer to one or more of the following questions.

1. What is the thesis of this article?

2. What sorts of sources does Ingersoll use to make his argument? Any primary sources, and if so, what?

3. How did the lives of both enslaved and free African Americans change according to the colonial power?

4. Ingersoll says on p. 200 of his article that the treatment of free blacks in New Orleans is an example of how race relations were used to unite all whites. What does he mean by that? Do you think democracy in the early United States would have been possible without slavery?

Wirte 150 word essay on one of these questions.

–How did the experience of enslavement cause people to question their religious beliefs?

–How was religion empowering?

–Were women of African descent necessarily considered inferior within the emerging African- American community, or was there space for women to be leaders?

–What is the one-drop-rule, and why do you think it persisted for such a long time?

Define these terms

Terms from Chapter 3

1. Tituba*

2. Harry Hosier 3. Daniel Coker 4. Spirituals 5. PhillisWheatley

1. Frederick Douglass

2. three-fifths clause

3. Haitian Revolution

4. Martin Delany

5. American Colonization Society

6. Sojourner Truth

7. Since this is the first week, let’s take a moment to discuss how to approach defining the terms. Below is a sample term and how to date, define, and state the significance. Term: Christopher Columbus

8. Date: Here I will ask you to provide an associated date with the term. Don’t worry about when Columbus was born or when he died, but think about the date we associate with Columbus. Remember, “In 14-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” So for date enter “1492.”

9. Definition: Again, you don’t need to provide a biography for Columbus. We are only interested in his place in history. What did he do? Here’s how I would define Columbus: Christopher Columbus was a Genoese explorer who believed he could find a new route to Asia

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12. by sailing westward. He received funding from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain for his voyage, and in 1492, he set sail. Instead of finding a new route for tapping into the lucrative Asian trade, he discovered two continents–the Americas.

13. Notice the length–only three sentences–and that I only addressed what he did (and why).

14. Significance: When stating the significance of a term, you’ll need to place it in a wider context. You’ll call upon the reading as a whole to provide the significance. Questions to ask yourself when determining the significance of a term include: what are the long-term consequences of this person’s actions, of the event, etc.? Why is this term so important it is worthy of inclusion in a textbook?

15. There is not one single right answer here–there are many things we could say about Columbus’s significance, but here’s one way to state it:

16. Columbus’s voyage resulted in British and European nations competing with one another to exploit the resources of the new lands. These wars for conquest were devastating for the Native Americans, who contracted new diseases and saw their greatest civilizations fall at the hands of Spanish and Portuguese conquerors.

17. Your statement of significance need not be this long. It can be expressed in a single statement, such as “Columbus’s voyage led to the conquest of the Americas.”