As you all finish "Trials", by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., look at
1. Who else was putting Wheatley under more trials and why?
P3 and P8 Due Fri. Nov. 12 = Quiz
2. Start "The Classic Slave Narratives", by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., by Wed. night
Intro = 1-14 pages
Mary Prince's Narrative begins on 249 (approx. 80 pages)
3. read 10 pages a night of "Narratives" including the Introduction
Highlight and at least ONE Window per 30 pages or Post-Its.
4. How slavery adversely affected the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
Themes of Othering, Identity, Humanity (defining "human" as Hume, Kant and T.J. believed), Rhetoric, Paradoxical "America" and others discussed in class.
P2, P5 and P7 Due Monday, Nov. 15 = Quiz
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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