Feb. 2, 2009 to syllabus Some study questions on slave revolts and Nat Turner

New: Paper Topic Instructions and Options

NEW: Midterm instructions and essay questions online!

History 350: American Radicalism

Note: Today I can stay after class until about 1:50 for a midterm review session. Attendance is entirely optional. I’d also be interested in your responses to the DVD on Nat Turner that I’ll show in class today.

I. Explaining patterns of slave revolts

II. Nat Turner's Predecessors
    A. Gabriel's Rebellion, Richmond, VA, 1800
documentary exhibit on slave rebellions from PBS "Africans in America" series

    B. Denmark Vesey's plot, Charleston, SC, 1822
from PBS "Africans in America" series

III. Turner's Rebellion
from PBS exhibit Turner's confession documents on slavery
Print a paper model of Nat Turner from the "Download-a-Revolutionary" website!?

    A. Environment and preconditions

    B. Turner as leader
        1. Delusionary madman?
        2. Revolutionary organizer?

    C. Goals: Vengeance, Escape, Liberation?