Secondary Sources
As you read the secondary sources below, complete the following questions for each:
1. Main Idea: In your own words, what is the main idea of this document?
2. Historical Context: Consider where and when the document was created and how this may affect the meaning of the document. Identify the particular historical trends, processes, events, specific circumstances of time and places, and/or to broader regional, national, or global processes in which the document fits.
3. Audience: Identify for whom was the document created and how this might affect the reliability of the source. It is very important in constructing your argument about the intended audience that you go beyond what is noted in the source line of the document.
4. Purpose: Consider what the goal, reason or motive was behind the author's choice to create the document. Identify the author's endgame, what they hope to accomplish, and why they are writing the document.
5. Point of View: Consider what about the author's identity causes them to say what they say. Try to establish a better understanding of the identity of the author. Consider what is the authors profession? Gender? Social Class? Religion? Ethnicity? Etc. Then go further and explain how one of these factors may have influenced the content of the source. You should both identify an influence that may have shaped the author or source and explain how that particular influence specifically affected the content of the content.
6. Significance: How does this source help you to answer the question: Did emancipation apply to women during Lincoln's presidency?
1. Main Idea: In your own words, what is the main idea of this document?
2. Historical Context: Consider where and when the document was created and how this may affect the meaning of the document. Identify the particular historical trends, processes, events, specific circumstances of time and places, and/or to broader regional, national, or global processes in which the document fits.
3. Audience: Identify for whom was the document created and how this might affect the reliability of the source. It is very important in constructing your argument about the intended audience that you go beyond what is noted in the source line of the document.
4. Purpose: Consider what the goal, reason or motive was behind the author's choice to create the document. Identify the author's endgame, what they hope to accomplish, and why they are writing the document.
5. Point of View: Consider what about the author's identity causes them to say what they say. Try to establish a better understanding of the identity of the author. Consider what is the authors profession? Gender? Social Class? Religion? Ethnicity? Etc. Then go further and explain how one of these factors may have influenced the content of the source. You should both identify an influence that may have shaped the author or source and explain how that particular influence specifically affected the content of the content.
6. Significance: How does this source help you to answer the question: Did emancipation apply to women during Lincoln's presidency?
War, Gender, and Emancipation in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry
McCurry is a specialist in 19th-century American history, with a focus on the American South and the Civil War era, and the history of women and gender. The following essay was published in Lincoln's Proclamation: Race, Place and the Paradoxes of Emancipation, edited by William Blair and Karen Younger.
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The Emancipation of Abe Lincoln by Eric Foner
Eric Foner is a specialist in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. In this essay he describes Abraham Lincoln's personal and public process through Emancipation.
www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/opinion/the-emancipation-of-abe-lincoln.html
www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/opinion/the-emancipation-of-abe-lincoln.html
OPTIONAL VIDEOS:
For further study, watch one or both videos and consider the same questions as seen above.
If you want to hear more personal stories of slave women impacted by emancipation:
Option 1: African American Women Refugees: Duke University history professor Thavolia Glymph talked about what happened to former salve women upon escape or emancipation from their owners over the course of the Civil War. Though their experiences were marked by perpetual transience, Ms. Glymph explains, these women formed new bonds of friendship and support during a turbulent time when many of them were separated from their families and established networks.
www.c-span.org/video/?315583-1/african-american-women-refugees
If you enjoyed the Stephanie McCurry article, but would like more clarity on the topic:
Option 2: Stephanie McCurry delivers the Keynote Address at the 24th Annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference. Her Keynote is focused on marriage as used within emancipation and she closes by answering questions from the crowd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSkhvUYxlo
If you want to hear more personal stories of slave women impacted by emancipation:
Option 1: African American Women Refugees: Duke University history professor Thavolia Glymph talked about what happened to former salve women upon escape or emancipation from their owners over the course of the Civil War. Though their experiences were marked by perpetual transience, Ms. Glymph explains, these women formed new bonds of friendship and support during a turbulent time when many of them were separated from their families and established networks.
www.c-span.org/video/?315583-1/african-american-women-refugees
If you enjoyed the Stephanie McCurry article, but would like more clarity on the topic:
Option 2: Stephanie McCurry delivers the Keynote Address at the 24th Annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference. Her Keynote is focused on marriage as used within emancipation and she closes by answering questions from the crowd.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSkhvUYxlo