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SAQ #2For A use the following:Explain the POV of one author…

SAQ #2For A use the following:Explain the POV of one author in relation to the question and then describe.Explain the POV of the other author in relation to the question and then describe .How are their POVs different in the general; Think of it like a main idea.Use these Sentence Stems(starters) to help you start your responseTherefore, …Consequently…Thus…For B and C use the following:Answer Question- Answer in complete sentence (restate question). You can introduce Vocabulary term you will use as evidence OR state your claimCite Evidence- SPECIFIC historical evidence. VOCABULARY WORD & DEFINITION. If evidence was not introduced in the previous sentence, you can start it with: For example… Explain/Elaborate- SO WHAT??? Why or how does your evidence support your answer. Can start with: As a result,… OR This suggests that… OR This led to… OR This is important because… “Slaves apparently thought of the South’s peculiar institution chiefly as a system of labor extortion. Of course they felt its impact in other ways—in their social status, their legal status, and their private lives—but they felt it most acutely in their lack of control of their own time and labor. . . . In Africa the Negroes had been accustomed to a strictly regulated family life and a rigidly enforced moral code. But in America the disintegration of their social organization removed the traditional sanctions which had encouraged them to respect their old customs. . . .Here, as at so many other points, the slaves had lost their native culture without being able to find a workable substitute and therefore lived in a kind of cultural chaos. . . . Marriage, insisted Frederick Douglass, had no existence among slaves. . . . His consolation was that at least some slaves ‘maintained their honor, where all around was corrupt.’”Kenneth M. Stampp, historian, The Peculiar Institution, 1956“We have made a great error in the way in which we have viewed slave life, and this error has been perpetuated by both whites and blacks, racists and antiracists. . . .What the sources show . . . is that the average plantation slave lived in a family setting, developed strong family ties, and held the nuclear family as the proper social norm. . . . We do not know just how many slaves lived as a family or were willing and able to maintain a stable family life during slavery. But the number was certainly great, whatever the percentage, and as a result, the social norm that black people carried from slavery to freedom was that of the nuclear family. . . . There are moments in the history of every people—in which they cannot do more than succeed in keeping themselves together and maintaining themselves as human beings with a sense of individual dignity and collective identity. Slavery was such a moment for black people in America.”Eugene Genovese, historian, American Slaves and Their History, 1971Using the excerpts, answer (a), (b), and (c).(a) Briefly explain ONE major difference between Stampp’s and Genovese’s historical interpretations of the nature of slavery.(b) Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development in the period 1820 to 1860 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Stampp’s interpretation.(c) Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development in the period 1820 to 1860 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Genovese’s interpretation.