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In a few carefully edited sentences, explain which reading from these last two units you liked best and why it was your favorite.

Pearl is the living breathing embodiment of the scarlet letter.

Cotton Mather accused people from the pulpit, causing the great awakening

The governor of Boston considers taking Pearl away from Hester.

Harriet Jacobs hides in an attic to avoid harassment by a sexual sadist, her owner’s father.

John Smith dies in slavery.

“Speech on the 4th of July” is a criticism of whites for celebrating freedom when so many people of African descent are not free.

One of the main ideas expressed in “Civil Disobedience” is that each individual is responsible for opposing government’s wrongdoing.

In “Civil Disobedience”,  the speaker states that there is nothing worth going to jail for.

Select one of the following to write a carefully edited, 200-400 word response.  Be sure to use plenty of evidence from the texts. 1) Contrast any two of the Harriets. 2) Write a conversation between Frederick Douglass and John Calhoun.