Create a new discussion topic on or before the required date/time by clicking the post. Develop a substantive main thread addressing each part of the prompt in full.
There were a lot of obvious labor and economic benefits to creating a race based slave system; however, the transition to race based slavery was more complex than what might be obvious to a 21st century student. Read Edmund Morgan’s paper, “Slavery and Freedom: the American Paradox” and as a class evaluate his argument that […]