On Friday in class, we focused on Chapter 8 of Uncle Toms's Cabin. We took nearly the entire class to read the excerpt and try to understand it. The language in the story is nearly impossible to comprehend because it is written with the slang words, and also in old time English, certainly not the easiest thing to do. Friday's class was relaxing and different because I have never spent an entire history class reading before.
Today in class, we turned in our sources sheet for our papers due. We talked about what source sheet is acceptable and which source sheet is not. After the sources were passed in, we talked about Eliza from Uncle Tom's Cabin. We talked about the different ways that people tried to catch slaves and the fugitive laws. It was interesting to know that even though those laws were passed, slaves were still successfully escaping every day. Today's class was dedicated to Eliza.
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