HIST/INST —The World since 1400
Paper #1 Assignment
Due: Monday, February 13 2019
Book: Andrea Stuart,
Sugar in the Blood
STATE:Illinois,Chicago USA.(Writter Should Not Be A Resident Of Chicag,o Illinois Please!)
Assignment:
Write a paper of
4-5 double spaced pages (Times New Roman, 12 size font with 1 inch margins)
in response to
ONE
of the following prompts. Make sure you have a clear thesis statement, good transitions, a compelling conclusion, and use appropriate examples for the text to support your points. Use quotation marks and parenthetical citations when citing directly from the text. For example, “There, planters like George Ashby stripped them of their African names and assigned them a slave name which must have sounded like gibberish to their ears and rolled uncomfortably off their tongue,” (Stuart, 90).
PLEASE BE SURE NOT TO PLAGIARIZE IN ANY WAY! Plagiarism will result in an automatic 0 for the assignment without the possibility of revision.
Papers are due electronically on Blackboard before the beginning of class
AND
in hardcopy in class on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. Exceptions will be permitted only with prior permission from the instructor or TA, and only if accompanied with a legitimate excuse.
Choose one from the list below and write about it.
• In the introduction to
Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart suggests that while being an intimate exposé of her family’s connections to slavery, her book is also a “global story, too—one that fixes its gaze on the connections between continents, between black and white, men and women, the free and the enslaved…” She further claims that her book demonstrates “that the individual is not just a victim of global history, but an author of it as well,” (Stuart, 4). What does Stuart mean by this? Write a 4-5 page paper that explains the extent to which
Sugar in the Blood
is a global history. How does Stuart manage to tell a global story through her personal family history?
OR
• Historians and Andrea Stuart argue that though slavery had existed for centuries before the Atlantic World arose, the Atlantic Slave Trade included a new kind of slavery altogether. What was so different about Atlantic World Slavery that set it apart from the centuries of slavery that preceded it? Using
Sugar in the Blood, write a 4-5 page paper that considers the nature of slavery in the Atlantic World. You might want to consider the economic motivators that led to the Atlantic Slave Trade, the effects of the racialization of slavery as an institution, and the legacies of slavery that we still experience today.
OR
• Traditional histories of slavery oftentimes depicted slaves as passive victims who were helpless and incapable of maintaining any identity at the hands of their white slave owners. More recently, however, historians have sought to revise this perspective and demonstrate that slaves had agency (independent will) and were capable of maintaining their African identities and creating new hybridized Atlantic ones. Using
Sugar in the Blood, write a 4-5 page paper that assesses the ways in which slaves were not passive victims of their enslavement. In what ways could slaves engage in active and passive forms of resistance? How did they maintain their own cultures or create new ones? How did they manage relationships between one another and their white owners?