Please answer one of the following questions in 2 – 3 paragraphs (300-500 words – word count is at the lower right corner) from the Primary Documents in Voices of Freedom.

I’m working on a History exercise and need support.

Primary Documents in Voices of Freedom

• • Document 96 – Petition of Black Residents of Nashville (1865), pg. 1

What understanding of American History and the nation’s future do the petitioners convey?

• • Document 98 – The Mississippi Black Code (1865), pg. 7

Why do you think the state of Mississippi required all black persons to sign yearly labor contracts but not white citizens?

• • Document 101 – Frederick Douglass, “The Composite Nation” (1869), pg. 18

What does Douglass mean when he refers to the United States as a “composite nation”?