- Understand the way historians gather and analyze evidence
- Written responses (300-400 words) to exercise questions
Step 1: Read “The View from the Bottom Rail” from After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection (in this module).
Step 2: After reading the text, answer the following questions.
Use a word processor to write your response to the following questions:
- What challenges does the study of slavery present for historians? How have some researchers tried to address these problems?
- There is a long discussion here of the interviews of Susan Hamlin and Susan Hamilton. What does this illustrate about the challenges that remain from the use of oral testimony?
- What happened to freedpeople after the war? What role does oral testimony play in recreating this portrait for us?
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