Reference no: EM133659670
Assignment:
Please help.
Topic: Discussing 'True Womanhood Deferred'- the Pedestal, the Loom, and the Auction Block
Instructions:
1. Watch the two sources -Crash Course US History episode, "Women in the 19th Century", and Crash Course Black American History episode titled "Women's Experience Under Slavery."
2. Referencing the reading mentioned in #1
3. Compose a 250 words discussion post that addresses the following prompt.
4. Define and characterize True Womanhood and its limitations. Asked another way, how were working women, immigrant women, and enslaved women denied access to True Womanhood?
5. In what ways could white working women still access True Womanhood? Contrast the pedestal, the loom, and the auction block.
6. How did the experiences of slave women compare to those of white women, both in the south and in the north?
7. Why not a cross-racial camaraderie or sympathy? In what ways did women resist or challenge the institution of slavery?
8. Why were women crucial to the survival of the plantation, slave kin groups, slave culture? Evaluate the "happy slave" myth.