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Questions:
1. What is the "dark picture" Frederick Douglass paints of the U.S. in his speech about what July 4th means to African Americans? Elaborate.
2. In spite of this dark picture, why is Douglass encouraged about the future of the U.S.?
3. In the John Brown source, Methods of Discipline, in what way was Brown "punished" by his owner/master?
4. In the excerpt on Nat Turner's Confessions, in what way did Turner set himself apart from other slaves? Be specific and list as many as possible.
5. Why might a slave owner believe that Turner "had too much sense" and "would never be of any use to any one as a slave"? Given your knowledge of antebellum society as set forth in the textbook for this week, what might the owner have meant by these words?
6. Given the Turner source, what were the reasons Turner gave for the massacre he carried out? Does a knowledge of the context of the massacres (the chapter on the Antebellum South) alter your understanding of Turner's words and acts? In what way?
In your cites, provide the basics of all citations: the name of the source, that of the author, and the page number or website address that takes the reader directly to your quoted excerpt. Put these essential bits of info in a parenthetical citation IMMEDIATELY AFTER your brief quotation. For example: "(OpenStax U.S. History, Corbett et al., Chapter 4 Section 2) or "(John Brown, paragraph 2)".