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James Hays Civil War
1) What sources were used in this article? How does this provide advantages and limitations to this study in history?

The sources that Richard F. Nation used in order to write the article “Violence and the Rights of African Americans in Civil War-Era Indiana: The Case of James Hays” were plentiful. Nation used books from other historian, as well as newspaper from the time of Hays case, civil records, and records of the U.S. census (Nation, R. F. 2004, pg.216, 218, 220 & 225). The advantages of Nation using other writer’s books, studies, and articles, is that it helped bring detail, and information that can be considered to be accurate, since it has been studied by others in the same field. Also the use of newspapers, U.S. census, and court …show more content…
In the article Nation mentions that James Hays was an African-American, and at the same time was doing better then even most white in his community when it came to wealth (Nation, R. F. 2004, pg.220 & 221). The way in which James Hays wealth, and race impacted the crime had to do with the racism of the time. Hays had more money /property then even most of the Caucasians in his community, and he was an African-American, this brought on an animosity by those Caucasians that had less then him, despite having a greater advantage in society (Nation, R. F. 2004, pg.217, 220 & …show more content…
Most of the article can be considered to have a sound argument because Nation is not writing about opinions, but facts, and these facts come from newspapers of the time, U.S. census, court records, and studies written by other historians (Nation, R. F. 2004, pg.216, 218, 220 & 225). Some parts can be interpreted as speculations because Nation does not provide any solid proof of his claim. For example, Nation mentions that one of the reasons why George W. Kimble might have wanted James Hays to leave Indiana, and sent the group of Caucasian men to beat him was because he was having an affair with Hays wife Elizabeth (Nation, R. F. 2004, pg.228). Another speculation that Nation makes is on the reason why Elizabeth might had committed adultery, Nation list a few reason why it might have occurred, but this does not add anything to the article because there is no solid prove, the only thing that is provided is speculations (Nation, R. F. 2004,
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