After reading the accounts of Harriet Jacobs and Solomon Northrup (listed below), write a two-page essay on why slavery could have been either beneficial or not to blacks and whites
Harriet Jacobs on Rape and Slavery, 1860:
http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-cotton-revolution/harriet-jacobs-on-rape-and-slavery/
Solomon Northup Describes a Slave Market, 1841:
