• What role did your character play in causing the Civil War?                                                                                                                                     My character played the role of someone who stayed back and observed and wrote about the war.                                                              
• Did your Character believe in slavery? Why? Why not?                                                                                                                                             My character did not believe in slavery because he thought it was wrong to put specific people to work just cause of their skin color which is something that they can’t change.                                                                                                                                                                   
• Does your character believe that the government should have the power to tell states what to do?                                                                My character does think that the government should be able to tell all the states what to do.                                                                          
• What other person/people does your character believe is most at fault for causing the war?                                                                          My character believed that south was the most at fault for the Civil War.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
• Do you like the character you were assigned? Why?                                                                                                                                                   I don’t really have a specific opinion on my character but if I could switch characters I would because my current person is not that interesting and didn’t do anything in the war but sit at his house and write about it.

How did the experiences of slaves first hand compared to what we have read about in the past?

It compared by the emotion that was put into the story and like the details of what was happening was so much more in detail then it would be in second-hand writing and how the masters treated them was emotional.

Were our secondary sources accurate to the slave experience? Explain.

Our secondary sources were not accurate because the secondary source was not there and didn’t go through the pain and suffering of being a slave so they can’t tell the story like the slaves can.

What was one new thing you learned from reading these stories?

One new thing I learned was how horribly the slaves were treated other than how the secondary sources were saying.

Did reading these stories from slaves change your perspective? How so?

Yes, because now I know how bad the slaves actually had it.

How do you think that the stories of slaves relate to our essential question of “Why do people move?”?

I think it relates because now we know why slaves moved.

Why did slaves move? Be specific in your answer.

They moved because they were forced to by white people to be slaves in the Americas.