Directions for Annotated Bibliography Project

1. Students will need to choose 4 to 8  of the following topics to do their research:

Askia Muhammad, The Middle Passage, John Newton, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L’Ouverture, The Haitian Revolution for Independence, David Walker, Richard Allen, Paul Cuffe, The America Colonization Society, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, The Underground Railroad, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, The Anti-Slavery/Abolitionist Movement, Frederick Douglass, The Dred Scott Decision, Jim Crow and Segregation, Maria W. Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Martin R. Delany, Henry Highland Garnet, The Amistad Mutiny, John Q. Adams and the Amistad Case, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid, The Emancipation Proclamation, The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Lincoln and Slavery, Reconstruction, Sharecropping, Ida B. Wells, and Booker T. Washington.  

 2.  Your annotated bibliography will be composed of two sections –

section one: books [four items], and

section two: articles (from professional/scholarly journals and periodicals [four items].

Note: Topics cannot be repeated or duplicated within each section.

 3.   For the first section on books, students will need to look over the table of contents and peruse the opening and closing chapters of each book in order to grasp the major points and themes. You may also refer to book reviews for additional insight.

      For the second section, the articles will need to be read in full.

This will enable students to compose a brief narrative or “annotation” (six sentences minimum) that is descriptive in nature for the four book entries andthe four article entries. End each entry with a personal commentary or editorial evaluation.

 4.    You are required to use the APA format for this project.

       Be sure to refer to the APA citation instructions available in reference books, Google,

       or other search engines on the Internet sites: 

 5.    No cover page needed. Place all pertinent information on one line at top of first page (your name, date, AAST/HIST 215 and Professor Finnie).

 Paper must be typed and stapled.

 (100 points possible)