Overview
Questions For Secondary Source Analysis #1 (You Must Choose One of the Articles listed below):
1. Kathleen Brown’s The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch (Unit 2)
2. Douglas Egerton, "Born Free and Equal" (Unit 3)
3. Edmund Morgan, "Slavery and Freedom, The American Paradox" (Unit 4)
Based on your careful reading of one of the above articles, answer the following questions in detail, save as a .doc or .pdf, and please submit by the due date. You should not write this in essay form. Instead, answer each question, separately and in order. Thank you.
ANALYZING A SECONDARY SOURCE
1. Who is this author and what are his/her credentials? (you may have to do a little research here)
2. Who are the key people in this article?
3. What are the key events?
4. What are the key subjects?
5. Name one primary source the historian uses, and explain the information this source provides.
6. Name one secondary source the historian uses, and explain the information this source provides.
7. What is the main argument or thesis?
8. Provide two examples of evidence from this article that you find convincing. Why are these examples effective?
9. How would you critique or question this argument?