Black Slavery, Freedom, and Resistance: Testimonies of Enslaved Individuals as Historical Actors in American History

 

In the second half of the quarter, you read works by several enslaved or formerly enslaved people, including Boston King (Week 6), Ona Judge (Week 7), Solomon Northrup (Week 9), and Nat Turner (Week 10). What does their respective testimony reveal about the changing contours and possibilities of Black slavery, freedom, and resistance from the time of the American Revolution, when Boston King escaped slavery by joining the British Army, to the Antebellum era, when the Virginia authorities hanged Nat Turner for leading a slave rebellion? How do their experiences advance our understanding of Black men and women as historical actors who play active roles in American history?

 

Freedom, justice, and democracy

 

 

 

 

 

The American novelist James Baldwin wrote, “Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.” Define the terms freedom, justice, and democracy. How did you derive the meaning for these words?

 

 

Behavioral Control, Freedom, and Morality (1972)

 

Watch this video Behavioral Control, Freedom, and Morality (1972) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ir5znnr4OkLinks to an external site. (24 minutes)
Write a 2-page paper, double-spaced, on this topic:
• Skinner discussed several characteristics of science. Your task is to:
o Select one of those characteristics
o Explain what it means
o Explain how it is important to the application of science to the study of human behavior
o Explain how it is important to how we think “scientifically”