History — Mid-Term Assignment. October 25th, 2022.
I told you I had come back to the University, didn’t I? This is the reason I have no time to write my articles or stories. I pass many hours in the library doing my homework and assignments.
I have many assignments to publish, but I need to check them before publishing, so I will do it in Christmas holidays. If I do something personal, then I go behind schedule and need extra time in the library. Thanks God today is Saturday and still I have some time for me.
What I am publishing now is my Mid-Term Assignment in History. We have many documents to be read, and our teacher left us free to select two and contrast them according to our own understanding.
So, these are the two primary source documents. You can find them in Internet if you wish to read them complete.
1. “Reconstruction”. Frederick Douglass Speech on “Remembering the Civil War”, 1878”. And,
2. “Jim Crow”. William Du Bois, “The Souls of Black Folks,” Chap 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings.
I have selected the two texts mentioned above, because both were written by two black men, magnificent intellectuals, which debunks the myth one race is superior to another. They were intelligent men who developed to the maximum and to whom many of any other race, did not even reach their…
