HIST DISCUSSION

TWO-PART ASSIGNMENT HIST

Seeking college level content that is articulate, complete and plagiarism free in final draft editing that needs no changes or corrections. Must be competent from beginning to end and on topic and no revisions necessary? Instructions followed completely.

Part one PAPER Instructions

Paper - The Rise of Slavery in Virginia History of the Old South

Use the following two articles: Respond to the (4) questions in a detailed essay? Distinguish/ List the questions prior to its answer? This answer must include the 4 points in the instructions, completely?

Edmund S. Morgan, “Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 59, Issue 1 (June 1972): 5-29.

Warren M. Billings, “The Law of Servants and Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 99, no. 1 (January 1991): 45-62.

1. How do Morgan and Billings explain the development of slavery in Virginia? 2. Where exactly do they differ in their explanations? 3. Which one offers a more plausible explanation? 4. Why, in 3-5 pages?

PART TWO – Remarks in 5 – 7 paragraphs, articulate Jeanette Keith, concept regarding early American history of the early south in the Introduction to her textbook The South, a Concise History, Vol. 1. It stipulates and provides three categories of themes that she sees at work in the Early History of the North American South (pages 9-12): chose one as a topic to highlight & explain in detail one of them and its impact as a theme to highlight on the Early South in North America? All of the themes are connected and reference to each of them is acceptable as long as the focus is clearly on ONE of them!

a) race, class, and gender

b) religion

c) defense of liberty

Using the scholarly reading and journal articles to highlight and explain an example of one of these three themes.  Must be relevant, competent, professionally written, college level content, that is coherent and plagiarism free, in final edit, free of errors, revisions, following the instructions completely?

ANSWER 2 PART TWO 9.7.18

Race, Class and Gender Issues in Early America

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Race, Class and Gender Issues in Early America

During the first world war, there were various Southern men, both White and Black who blatantly refused to serve as military men. According to Keith (2001), the resistance of the Black men to serve the country is because it is the same country that always failed to honor the rights of these people. Additionally, the Black people’s anger which was spurred by class bias especially in the federal recruitment policies made them reluctant to join the military. In general, such issues related to religion, liberty defense, racism, gender and class are highly intertwined and can barely be discussed separately. In relation to Jeanette Keith’s article, the topic of race, gender and class will be discussed.

The Southern history is said to be highly contested and deeply political. Keith (2001) claims that there is high possibility for the Southern historians to be offended by the article because of some of the political issues in the article. In the US, in general, the issue of racism has always been a major problem. Racism and class always go hand in hand. Furthermore, the issue of gender has also been a subject of debate over the years. This has raised such issues as gender roles and feminism and the issue of LGBT among others. In the American South, these were some of the issues that majorly affected the country.

In the American South, class structures were normally observed in urban areas. These places were highly stratified and, in most cases, individuals of certain ethnicity were distinguished from others through geographical stratification. Even though the society was considered patriarchal, there were several cases in which women took part in decision-making. Even military decisions included the decision of women (Rothenberg, 2004). The association that exists between gender, class and race is said to determine the productivity as well as biological capacity of a region. In the American South, slave labor and fertile, fertile soils, enough rain as well as labor divisions in terms of gender led to a patriarchal economy of cotton.

Since the South was highly fertile, humid and with heavy rains, it became an economy that was focused on plantation. These are some of the things that marked the roles related to gender, race and class. Most men were forced to work in these plantations. In this case, class was determined by the status in the society, where slaves were ranked lowest in the society whereas the owners of plantations and these slaves were ranked higher in the society. Unique associations of gender are said to have reinforced the class and race relations (Keith, 2001). In relation to race, the African Americans, Indians and Latinos were among the lowest ranked in the South society.

Even though there were poor whites in rural South before the civil war, after slavery came to an end, race became the most noteworthy determinant of unequal power associations. After slavery came to an end, the poor whites were made to view the freed Blacks as competitors (Rothenberg, 2004). This resulted in cases where even though the poor whites were at the same level as the poor blacks, they still felt superior to these blacks because of matters related to race. In relation to gender, women of all kinds of races labored in fields but there was no interracial solidarity in relation to class because race still remained to be the single most dividing issue.

In sum, the South during the First World War as well as during the Civil War have experienced various issues related to race, class, gender, religion and liberty defense. In this paper, the issues related to race, class and gender have been discussed. It can be seen that race remained to be the most dividing factor in the society even after such issues as slavery had been eliminated. In relation to class, all races and genders were affected but those whose race is considered superior in the society often felt that they were still superior to the others. Women played a significant role in decision making and other matters in the society but those of the minority race remained inferior.

Reference

Keith, J. (2001). South: A Concise History, Volume I. Prentice hall.

Rothenberg, P. S. (2004). Race, class, and gender in the United States: An integrated study. Macmillan.