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Making Formal Outlines

Outline for Model Research Paper

Title: “Free Blacks in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century”

Introduction

Hook: Sketch of major injustices against free Blacks

Thesis statement: Despite suffering from oppressive discrimination, free Blacks in the North managed not only to survive but to build a community that helped them thrive.

Supporting Paragraphs

Economic barriers against free Blacks

Job discrimination

Examples and statistics

Quotation from “A Colored Philadelphian”

Quotation from young free Black man

Poverty and its results

Discrimination

Individual prejudice

Mob violence

Jim Crow laws: segregation

Black Codes

Black exclusion laws

Justifications for discrimination

Belief in inferiority of Black people

Fear of intermarriage

Successful struggle: Building a community

Examples of individual economic success

Examples of community activities and institutions

Conclusion

Sharing the American dream

Handing down a legacy of achievement

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