Announcements
- Discussion sign-ups are complete. If you didn’t sign up on your own, I signed up for you.
AGENDA
- Device time
- News item
- A closer look at NPS’s Underground Railroad page
- Primary research check-in. Note my tips and start sending emails out this week (see assignment).
- Device-free time
- Timed exercise
- Discussion circle with audio excerpt. Popcorn or go around room?
- Final notes on Session 6 readings
ASSIGNMENT
You can use AI, but you must verify any information you find. I may ask you about it.
- EMAIL:
- As of this writing, four people haven’t sent me draft email messages for your primary research. Please do this ASAP!!
- If I’ve responded to your draft messages with approval, please send your emails in accordance with the General Notes for D&T Email Drafts.
- NEWS: Please share a relevant news item and be prepared to explain it.
- READ and be prepared to discuss these very short readings/watchings:
- WGBH (PBS Boston): Who Made America: Eli Whitney
- PBS Georgia: King Cotton & the Cotton Gin (5:35)
- WNET (PBS New York): The Cotton Economy & Slavery (3:03)
- Connecting Cotton to the Northeast
- NYC Garment District history: read the parts about the 1800s
- Charles River Museum exhibit on The Boston Associates: “venture capitalists of the past”
- NPS.gov page on Lowell’s Southern Connection: Lowell was a textile manufacturing town financed by the Boston Associates. This chapter is from an NPS guide to Lowell National Historical Park.
- REVIEW and be prepared to discuss:
- Beloved up until “She’s not sick!” said Denver, and the passion in her voice made them smile.” (The entirety of Beloved-Part02.mp3)
- Any/all previous assignments
- FOR DISCUSSION FACILITATORS: If you’re leading the next session discussion, email me the following by 1:30pm ET on 9/30, as part of your discussion grade:
- your audio excerpt
- a simple discussion question on the Beloved reading assignment
- a more challenging discussion question on the same assignment
OPTIONAL: More reading on Textile innovation & Slavery
- WGBH: The Cotton Gin & Slavery
- Eli Whitney Museum: The Cotton Gin and its Legacies
- 11-minute video on The Boston Associates
- NYC’s Garment History: A Bibliography