Feb. 4, 2009 to syllabus Some study questions on slave revolts and Nat Turner

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Midterm instructions and essay questions online!

History 350: American Radicalism

Website for the film we watched on Monday: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

I. 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?

II. Results of Turner's Uprising
    A. Reprisal and Repression
excerpts from revised Alabama slavery code, 1833

    B. White Virginia Debates Slavery
Sen. Calhoun calls slavery a "positive good" Thomas Dew reviews the Virginia debates

    C. White Abolitionists, Slave Revolts and Nonviolence

    D. Turner as Inspiration (see cartoon below)