For homework, please read pp. 288 (starting with the paragraph that begins "In November")-296 of These Truths and answer the following questions:
1. Who was Frederick Douglass?
2. How did attitudes towards secession differ among the southern population?
3. In 1861, enslaved people made up what percentage of the Confederacy's population?
4. Why did Comanches and Seminoles fight with the Confederacy?
5. What contribution did photography make to documenting the Civil War?
Links of interest:
- full text of Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (virginia.edu)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry for Ralph Waldo Emerson (this online encyclopedia is a fantastic resource; one definitely to bookmark for future research): Ralph Waldo Emerson (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- full text of Self-Reliance Self-Reliance (1841) (usembassy.de)
- photography of the Civil War Images from the Civil War Battlefields | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
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