Completing this assignment will enable you to assess the ways in which enslavement shaped nearly all aspects of southern life as well examine the manner in which African Americans resisted enslavement.

Your submission should include a brief summary (no more than two paragraphs) of your thoughts about why and how the institution of slavery became so firmly entrenched in southern life in the three decades prior to the Civil War.
Was this growth inevitable? Why or why not?
If you answer yes, be sure to explain why it was inevitable. If you answer no, explain why it wasn’t and what developments you believe could have changed the course of events.
Consider your readings/assignment from Module 8 – What role did the “racialization” of work in the North play in white America’s acceptance of slavery? What were similarities in the viewpoints of both northern and southern whites?
Format your assignment with 12-point, Times-New Roman font, double spaced, 1” margins.
Your submission should be at least 700 words long.
Keep these points in mind as you listen to the interviews: the formerly enslaved interviewees are most often being interviewed by white people and there is a fairly active historical debate about the degree to which the use of white interviewers skewed responses from the subjects, as this was a period in which white-on-black violence and economic reprisals were rarely met with legal consequences. In short, some subjects may have not been as forthcoming because they feared being harmed for speaking ill of whites.

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