Assignment

Students are required to answer one of the following:

1. Your family lives in Virginia. They own a modest farm which has two families of slaves. It is the new year of 1861 and war is possible. Which side will you support? Why will you be willing to give your life if necessary for the Union or the newly forming Confederacy? Your slaves are anxious and speak of freedom. What is to be done with them?

2. It is the spring of 1865. Your family resides in Roswell, Georgia and has experienced four long years of war. A peace has been signed. The Reconstruction period is commencing. Congress is passing new laws which may change the South. Do you agree and follow these new laws? Or do you resist these changes and work ardently to make sure that as little as possible changes in the South? What is your motivation and what are your beliefs about the status of the former slaves?