Essay question
Based on your reading of Sydney Nathans, To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary
Walker and the following primary sources:
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project,
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-
1936-to-1938/
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray
Collection, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
Make an argument that evaluates the importance of family formation among African
Americans in antebellum America.
In addition to referring to Nathan’s analysis, you must incorporate a minimum of two
sources from the Born in Slavery series and two pamphlets from the African American
Perspectives collection.

must have citations in footnotes, cited accurately and written in a historically academic form.

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