Read Professor Grimsted's essay which I sent you as a pdf attachment to an email.
Review and be prepared to discuss documents relating to Samuel Green's ownership of a copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
additional note: at times there are problems in accessing the
documents on the Maryland State Archives web site. I have also placed
the documents here:
green/index.html, where you will
find a pdf of the Blondo thesis and the other key documents as tif files
for which you will need to use a tif viewer such as that which comes with
xp or a third party viewer such as IRFAN.
If you would like to review the sources for last week's lecture/discussion see:
excerpts from Thomas Gossett, James Ford Rhodes, and Mary Chesnut's Diary
excerpts from Annie Field's biography
and listen to: Lorenzo Jones, 1939 broadcast