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HIS121 Primary Source Outline Assignment
You must construct an outline for the final essay assignment that would answer one of the following essay questions.
To do so, you must select a total of at least four sources from any of the primary source readers (unit readers 1-5) to
support your preliminary essay outline. Use and fill out the outline template on the second page.
The outline should demonstrate your plan and your approaches for using the available primary source evidence to answer
one of these questions. Your outline should be approximately one to three pages long (single-spaced).
Since this is an outline, your writing style may be more informal—bullet points and short-hand notes are acceptable while
formal paragraphs are not necessary.
1) Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
Using the available evidence, answer the following questions: what were Thomas Jefferson’s long-term attitudes
regarding slavery? And how did his ideas influence the debate over the spread of slavery after 1819?
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