MY SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER is a pain in the BEHIND.?

Question

I have to do a report/essay on a colonial black women in the 1700s or 1800s. How specific can she be?! The person has to be non-famous. If the person's non-famous how am I to get info on her? I tried asking her but she said to figure it out myself. I've tried, but can't find a thing!

Please tell me a women who:

1.Lived in the colonial times (1700s-1800s)
2.Is black
3.And is non-famous

Answer 1

That is easy - she is just asking you to make a woman up who lived back then, but use facts that you have learned help you create some of the things she might have had to deal with.


Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

Is the report to be about A black womAn (singular and specific) from that time period, or about black womEn (plural and generically) from that time period?

If the assignment is the latter, you are going to be looking at what life would have been like for ANY and, pretty much, ALL black womEn (plural) during that time period.

Since you are posting in the higher ed forum, I assume that you are a college student. In that case, you need to:

1. Read what the syllabus says about the assignment.
2. Pick the professor's brain about any point of what is required of you that is not clear to you (from what you have written here, I'm not clear if you are to research womEn or a womAn - you need to nail that down, it makes all the difference in how you will approach this as a research problem)
3. Take your syllabus or handout from the teacher to the library with you and talk to a librarian. If your library requires an appointment for reference help, you need to call ahead.

You need to take the syllabus or assignment instructions with you because when you sit down with the librarian (maybe me), s/he can give you a LOT more help if he or she can look at the assignment and call the professor if there is any ambiguity about what needs to be done. If you are attending “I’m Just A Faceless Number Here University,” the librarians may not be able to assist you at that level (calling the professor) – there are just too many students. Where I work, the librarians will call the prof for clarification if an assignment is not clear. Many times the prof has already provided the library with a copy of the assignment and told us what they are looking for, so we are ready, waiting for you to come in with your questions.

Many college libraries provide email or IM reference help, too, but even if they don’t, they all have a telephone on the reference desk. The librarian (but not everyone working at the library) is specially trained to answer your questions. Your tuition dollars are paying the librarian’s salary. Go ask a question. I’d much rather work with you than do paperwork!

Answer 3

The North had slavery for a while, but ended it in the colonial era. The south continued. Pick out a famous person - say, the people that founded Harvard, and see if they had slaves. Get information.

Go search for the import manifests for the slaves imported during a year - say 1750 - and find the names and see if can reach information about this person and what happened to them.

Answer 4

go to a public library
check for biographies of black women in the 1700-1800s
of check Jefferson's bio, he have many slaves - take one and write about her

since she should be a famous one, you can use your imgaination and just create yr own story

Answer 5

IT has to be a real person?Why dont you check out the library at your school or ask a public librarian to direct you to resources.Other than that I suggest you readUncleToms Cabin.by Francis Beecher Stowe.This book is about slaverybut its more of a fictional story.

Answer 6

I would answer this question in a "She probably..." format.

For example, "She probably came to America half-starved on a slave trade ship from Western Africa. She was probably sold and sent to a plantation...etc."

Get the info on all of the typical situations for black women for this time period and write your answer based on that.

Sounds like a great project...good luck!

Answer 7

just make one up if she isnt famous your teacher shouldnt know who it is. and if she asks for a source you can tell her you found it somewhere on the internet and forgot to cite it.