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Lynn Account and Shackles and Dollars Discussion
Questions:
In the reading “A Reporter’s Account of Lynn Women’s Mass Meeting During the Great Strike, 1860,” a depiction of working class women’s activism is provided. What does this text tell us about the role that women played in this strike?
How might a middle class woman involved in the reform movement respond to such an account?
Questions:
Historians and economists are, as the Chronicle of Higher Education described, upset at each other about interpretations of slavery.
In your own words: what’s at stake in these debates?
What is the position of the historians and the economists?