We don’t know. There are too many walls between us and them. The complex lives led by the fourteen people enslaved in Charleston will never fully be understood by us, but we remain committed to working away at this chapter of our institution’s history.
too fluffy
n the years when H.S. Hayden enslaved Jesse Young and others, Charleston doubled its police force and, by the 1850s, “Charleston more closely resembled a modern police state than any other city in the nation.”30
Interesting decision to end a paragraph on a quote. Not analyzing a quote usually leaves an ambiguous result. Why include a quote at the end of the paragraph here?
job-to-job, still working for enslavers’ benefit.13 As Greene and his co-authors have written, Charleston was “the only place in the country that seems to have actually issued tags, though other cities legislated hiring out procedures.”14 In the years between H.S. Hayden’s arrival in Charleston and the 1850 census, the number of badges distributed by the City of Charleston held steady between an estimated low of 3,508 and an estimated high of 4,277.15
Utilizing differnt forms of primary source research within the same paragraph seeks to convince the reader from multiple perspectives.
significant
Classic 3-2-1-2-3 sentence structure in essays
Though we have not found documented evidence of bills of sale or transfers of ownership, we do know that the creation of the Hayden & Gregg partnership in 1842 included enslaved people in the agreement.
Not overanalyzing, you are simply stating what you do know and what you don't know. Being honest about the extant of the research.
Beyond the age, sex, and race of the fourteen people enslaved by H.S. Hayden in Charleston, we have identified the name of one of the fourteen: Jesse Young. We believe he was the 25-year-old man living in the second household.
adds humanization? Idk nice writerly move but i don't think im trying to humanize a lot in my own essay
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Good hook