For this final exam/paper in our class on the history of the Caribbean, I’m asking you to reflect back on all four books we have read this semester, as well as class lectures, films and your two PowerPoint projects.  I’d like you to do this by re-considering Jamaica Kincaid’s essay about the relationship between Antiguans and outsiders.

 Specifically, I’d like you to write an essay of approximately 1,800 words [roughly 6 double-spaced pages] that adopts as its thesis one of the three template sentences listed below. See the grading grid below for specific requirements.

 1. Kincaid is surely right about _________ because recent research and published documents on Thomas Thistlewood, the Haitian Revolution, and twentieth-century vodou show that _____________.

2. Whereas Kincaid is surely right that _____________________, recent research and published documents on Thomas Thistlewood, the Haitian Revolution, and twentieth-century vodou convince me that __________________________ instead.

3.  I disagree with Kincaid’s view that _________________, because, as recent research and published documents on Thomas Thistlewood, the Haitian Revolution, and twentieth-century vodou prove, _______________________. 

Instructions: To read my embedded comments in older versions of Microsoft WORD, click “View” and “Comments” on the menu. In Word 2003 and after, click “View” and then “Print Layout View”.  I highlighted [in green] words and phrases that contain obvious errors; ask me if you have trouble figuring out what the mistake is!

On your Mama Lola paper I said you should improve: