History IA on Slavery
To what extent did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 weaken political unification between the North and South through 1865?
C. Evaluation of Sources
Equal Protection and the African American Constitutional Experience (2000) is a compilation of over a hundred primary source documents. The primary sources (legislation, letters, testimony and more) were compiled, edited and analyzed by Robert P. Green, a “distinguished professor” who claims a Masters in United States History, a Bachelors in History and has taught American Educational History, Principles of American Education along with several other courses at Clemson College. Green’s purpose is to provide a volume of information for students to learn the basic facts behind pivotal events in African American legal history and to understand controversial views of these events all leading up to the civil rights movement. He is especially fascinated with “the nature of the conflicts, the issues being litigated, and the social and cultural pressures… [of] each debate.” With the inclusion of primary sources and evaluation in Post-Revisionist school of thought, Green’s information was valuable because I could determine my personalunderstanding of the original document and gain a clearer and more valuable perspective of various events in African American legal history. However, because Green selects his documents specifically in relation to the Civil Rights movement, inexhaustible pertinence to my investigation and the value of Green’s source overall was weakened. Although this served as a limitation for proving my thesis which was not related to the Civil Rights movement, Equal Protection still includes a great variety of valuable primary sources and analysis
The second source I frequently utilized was Free At Last (1992) by the amalgamation of editors: Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy and Leslie S. Rowland. Each consult in the analysis of Free At Last are either professors or
C. Evaluation of Sources
Equal Protection and the African American Constitutional Experience (2000) is a compilation of over a hundred primary source documents. The primary sources (legislation, letters, testimony and more) were compiled, edited and analyzed by Robert P. Green, a “distinguished professor” who claims a Masters in United States History, a Bachelors in History and has taught American Educational History, Principles of American Education along with several other courses at Clemson College. Green’s purpose is to provide a volume of information for students to learn the basic facts behind pivotal events in African American legal history and to understand controversial views of these events all leading up to the civil rights movement. He is especially fascinated with “the nature of the conflicts, the issues being litigated, and the social and cultural pressures… [of] each debate.” With the inclusion of primary sources and evaluation in Post-Revisionist school of thought, Green’s information was valuable because I could determine my personalunderstanding of the original document and gain a clearer and more valuable perspective of various events in African American legal history. However, because Green selects his documents specifically in relation to the Civil Rights movement, inexhaustible pertinence to my investigation and the value of Green’s source overall was weakened. Although this served as a limitation for proving my thesis which was not related to the Civil Rights movement, Equal Protection still includes a great variety of valuable primary sources and analysis
The second source I frequently utilized was Free At Last (1992) by the amalgamation of editors: Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy and Leslie S. Rowland. Each consult in the analysis of Free At Last are either professors or
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