Race Prompt: One of the most enduring and disturbing legacies of American slavery remains the complex, inexorable connection forged between slaves and masters. Using Bolster’s and Mutti Burke’s monographs, please examine the relationships between African-American slaves and white Americans in the colonial and Antebellum South between 1750 and 1860. Using the backdrop of maritime life and the frontier, explain what slavery meant for whites and how it affected whites’ social and economic goals. Significantly, explore also how slaves shaped their own socioeconomic circumstances at sea and on the frontier farm. Where and how did slaves hold power in these relationships? In assessing this evidence, what factors do you think proved most influential in shaping white and black responses to slavery? Why? must use these books only: Books required for Race Prompt: W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), 1998. ISBN-10: 0674076273; ISBN-13: 978-0674076273. (Whole Book) Diane Mutti Burke, On Slavery′s Border: Missouri′s Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 (Athens: University of Georgia Press), 2010. ISBN-10: 0820336831; ISBN-13: 978-0820336831. (Whole Book)