Final Essay on Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
In a 1500- word double-spaced essay, answer all of the following questions. Provide page number citations throughout your essay.
1. What is the author’s main argument? What is her contribution to this field of research?
2. What types of historical sources did the author use?
3. Why did enslaved women run away during the American Revolution period? What social, political/ideological, or situational factors contributed to enslaved women escaping bondage?
4. How did enslaved women flee slavery? Provide 2-3 different examples.
5. According to this book, what was the importance of Dunmore’s Proclamation, and the Philipsburg Proclamation?
6. Which chapter is the best in this book, and why?
7. What is your opinion of this book? What is your overall review? What is something that stood out to you about the topics covered, or the writing?
*BE SURE THE BOOK IS BY KAREN COOK BELL & You will be graded on:
1. Answering each of the questions above to the best of your ability.
2. Illustrating your knowledge of the assigned book.
3. General accuracy in explaining historical facts.
4. Using standard English, and illustrating basic editing of your work.