Daily Log

Monday, October 20

Students took the quiz over Chapters I-VI of Frederick Douglass's Narrative, and then graded it.

We resumed reading the Narrative where we had left off on Friday, which was in the paragraph on pages 5-6 in which Douglass alludes to the Curse of Ham. We read the passage in Genesis 9 (Verses 20ff.) on which the notorious tradition is based, and talked briefly about how religion was used by both camps in the struggle over slavery in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.