The thesis statement for essay is "After an analysis of the slave narratives from South Carolina, this essay
makes an argument that slave owners competed with each other to inflict the harshest punishments." (this
is what paper should be about)
Answer at least three of these questions within paper. What did individual slaves do before the Civil War
and afterward?◦What do oral histories teach us about historical events?◦Did emancipation change their
lives? If so, how? If not, why not?◦What questions to these former slaves raise?◦Do you think gender has
an impact on the slave’s recollections?