Do not quote and cite the textbook, or information you noted in lecture.

TOPIC: Discuss the impact slavery had on early American history. Among other things, consider its origins, how it affected various regions, as well its personal, political, economic, and social implications. Please note, you may have to read ahead a bit to obtain information we’ve yet to discuss. In your paper, include relevant primary source quotes and their corresponding citations from at least four different readings in The American Yawp Reader (before 1877).
When writing, you must support your own ideas by citing short passages from the primary documents in The American Yawp reader (before 1877). Please note, however, these citations should be short (ranging from just part of a sentence to a full sentence or two at the very most). Be sure to include the cited text inside quotation marks (showing the reader you are not using your own words), and then place the author’s name (if known) and the name of the particular document in parentheses. For example, if you were discussing the Native American’s reaction to their forced removal from their ancestral lands, you would cite a passage from the online reading.
However, please be sure that your quotes are just supporting your own argument, not making it for you. Be sure to first contextualize, and then explain, your quotes’ relevance to your own ideas.
No secondary sources of any kind (not even the introductions to and overview of the primary sources) should be quoted and cited. If you are uncertain about what exactly constitutes a “primary source,” please consult the links on our class’ homepage under the module “Course Materials”. Do not quote and cite the textbook, or information you noted in lecture. You may draw upon what you have learned in lecture, from the videos or textbook as background material, but the information you use from them must be put in your own words. The use of any sources other than the primary sources from The American Yawp Reader (before 1877) is not permitted (this is explicitly not a research paper, but an exercise in primary source analysis).