"The Silence"

Your first reading in Unit 2 comes from Joseph Ellis' Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers. In a chapter he calls "The Silence," Ellis writes about the first debates over slavery in Congress, in 1790. For this reading, there will be no questions. Find somewhere comfortable and quiet to read this, make notes in the margins if you like, but above all, come to class next week ready to talk about this. If it becomes clear to me that people have not held up their end, we will have a quiz.

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