After reading the material, answer the following questions.  Your response to each of the discussion questions should be 150 words or more.  Make sure that you use specific evidence from the sources to support your ideas.  Your initial discussion thread should contain responses to both questions.  Then reply to two of your classmates.  Each of those replies should be 150 words or more.  The content folder also contains the discussion rubric used to grade this assignment.

Compare the arguments of Mrs. Bird (in Uncle Toms Cabin) and Lydia Maria Child.  They both turn to religion to support their views, but what are the similarities and differences in their arguments?
In her reply to Margaraetta Mason, Lydia Maria Child stated, As for John Brown, his reputation may be safely trusted to the impartial pen of History. Do you agree with her statement?  Why or why not?