Read Chapter 2 from Douglas Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name, what is the chapter’s thesis or argument? Either describe the thesis in your own words OR identify the line or lines in the chapter that you believe are most likely to be its thesis and explain why.

1. Read Chapter 2 from Douglas Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name, what is the chapter’s thesis or argument? Either describe the thesis in your own words OR identify the line or lines in the chapter that you believe are most likely to be its thesis and explain why.

2. The assigned primary source includes two accounts of the Colfax Massacre of 1874, one of many instances of a vigilante and racial violence that dotted the post-Civil War South in the era of reconstruction. In brief, what happened at Colfax? How does the account offered by Congress differ from the account offered by the Committee of Seventy based in New Orleans? What might explain the difference? What do the two accounts of the Colfax Massacre tell us about white Southerners views of the freedmen?

Primary source:https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/colfax-massacre-reports/
Chapter 2 from Douglas Blackmon’s Slavery by Another Name uploaded as PDF