US History and African Americans Before Civil War Paper

This
discussion forum has been about the broad variety of slave
experiences based on work, where they lived, who owned them, old or
young, male or female, etc. Given all of your reading, previous
knowledge, and other research for the forum: is there any one common
black experience in the 1800s? If yes, what is it, if no, why not?

About
250 – 300 words

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In
the 1930’s, different historians, folklorists, and others as a part
of the Works Progress Administration, made a point to interview the
aging population of black Americans who were alive before the Civil
War and remembered slavery. They collected more than 2,300 narratives
and memoirs called the WPA American Slave Narratives. They are
available in their entirety on the Library of Congress’s website. I
am providing you with 11 selections of men and women telling their
stories about life before the Civil War.

Your
assignment is to write a 3 page
essay examining the narratives I have provided answering this
question: in what ways were the roles of African American men
significantly different from the roles of African American women
before the Civil War?

There
are many ways to approach this essay, but my recommendation is to
approach the topic thematically. Pick 2-3 themes, like family, work,
or health, etc., create an argument and use the sources to support
your argument.