Tanya met with two graduate students to discuss their research projects.

 

Tanya met with two graduate students to discuss their research projects.

“What sparked your interest in slavery?” she asked Leslie.

“I’ve just always wondered,” Leslie said, shrugging. “Like, why in America at that time?”

“And what is the story you want to tell?” Tanya inquired.

“My problem,” Sean interrupted, “is that I’m buried in all the sources I’ve dug up.”

“Have you determined the focus of your research?”

“I guess not well enough,” said Sean.

“Welcome to the challenges of being a historian,” said Tanya, smiling.

Match the historian’s task with the question that represents it.

asking questions about the past

creating narratives

choosing what is relevant

A.

“Like, why in America at that time?”

B.

“Have you determined the focus of your research?”

C.

“And what is the story you want to tell?”

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“Let’s think about historical lenses,” Tanya suggested. “How might one view this image through the lens of race? Or economics? Or even gender?”

Match each statement about the image with the historical lens that it reflects.

“Elite slave owners in formal dress purchased slaves to make a profit from their labor.”

“African women were assumed to be accustomed to harsh working conditions, unlike European women.”

“Slave owners believed Africans were a separate and lower species simply because of their physical characteristics.”

A.

class

B.

race

C.

politics

D.

gender

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Leslie returned to her list of sources as Sean took quick notes on historical lenses. Leslie decided she needed to develop a more targeted research question.

She jotted down a few questions. Then she went back and circled one. She circled it again. It felt right.

Consider Leslie’s research question:

What involvement did women have in the antislavery movement in 1800s America?

Choose the best secondary source to begin to answer Leslie’s question.

a 10-year-old documentary about the first antislavery movements

a book about the lives of female slaves published this year by a historian

an original transcript of an interview with a female slave in South Carolina

a recent Hollywood movie that portrays how the Underground Railroad worked

a website created by a history enthusiast about antislavery coalitions in the 1800s

an encyclopedia entry that provides details about slavery in the United States

 

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