How would you critique or question this argument

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Assignment - Secondary Source Analysis (Requires Research of a Primary Source)

Instructions - Please select one of the secondary articles from the units in the modules. After carefully reading the article, please complete the secondary source analysis worksheet. Be sure to fully address each question; you will be graded on the depth of your answers and the accuracy of your analysis and interpretation. This worksheet is slightly different from Secondary Source Analysis Worksheet #1. It has two more questions at the end that require research. The secondary articles you can choose from are:

1. Vincent Carretta, Phyllis Wheatley: An Eighteenth Century Genius in Bondage (Unit 5).

2. Brenda Stevenson, Distress and Discord in Slave Families (Unit 9).

3. Peter Kolchin, Antebellum Slavery: Slave Religion and Community (Unit 11).

4. Amy Crawford, The Real Deal, (Unit 13).

5. Ira Berlin, Who Freed the Slaves? Emancipation and Its Meaning (Unit 15).

Here are the questions (Answer in Question Format not Essay Format):

ANALYZING A SECONDARY SOURCE

1. Who is this author and what are his/her credentials? (you may have to do a little research here)

2. Who are the key people in this article?

3. What are the key events?

4. What are the key subjects?

5. Name one primary source the historian uses and explain how he/she uses it

6. Name one secondary source the historian uses and explain how he/she uses it.

7. What is the main argument or thesis?

8. What is the most convincing aspect of the author's argument? Why do you find it convincing?

9. How would you critique or question this argument?

10. Through research, please find a primary source document that would support this author's conclusions in this article. Provide a link to this document.

11. In a detailed answer at leas a paragraph in length, explain why you believe this document supports the author's thesis.

*Remember, you will be graded on the depth of your analysis, the detail of your answers, and your research.

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