1831 Year Of Eclipse By Louis Masur Chapter Summary

Louis Masur’s book, 1831 year of eclipse, is about the author using research about a specific year of which is extremely important to the United States of American that history apparently decided to forgot. In the book, he discusses and uses his knowledge and his research to describe the events in the year. This includes Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, tensions and arguments between states’ rights and national priorities, conflict about religion and politics, and finally, new machinery that will affect America in a certain way. Each of these themes are split up into four chapters in total, which I find it very interesting because I never have it done before in a novel. For the first chapter called, “slavery and abolition”, I find it interesting that there was another time that the slaves had another time of trying to
This chapter really has me thinking about the world we live in, as in maybe we should find a way to balance it out of what we can make and how it is useful for every living being. This chapter is mostly talking about on how new machinery can effect American in either a positive light, or it can backfire and it could ruin the land. I enjoy this chapter a lot more than the other three because I believe its focusing more than just one topic and that is involvement. We as a species are always involving and making use of the resources we have; but what if we bite off more than we can chew, in other words, we use up to much resources in our area that we will be hurting the land that was given to us. The same can be ask for the people included in the chapter and the way Masur has described it as, that we need to balance of what can we build, and how much of nature is being used to help build the machines. To conclude, this chapter is might be the best chapter for tackling a topic that is still debated in recent