Pre and post Civil War

This paper is a primary source paper. It is based on the digital archive Valley of the Shadow. It is in Chicago Style. Thesis should be clear and different section of the paper should reflect the instruction below
focus on two themes: women, and African Americans. So state at the outset of your paper in very clear terms what your objective is. That is, you plan to draw upon primary sources including newspaper reports, letters, diaries, census, etc., lodged in the digital archive Valley of the Shadow in order to compare and contrast the representations and experiences of two groups of people in two counties on opposite sides of the slavery question during the era of the Civil War. That these two groups include women, and African Americans.
2) Then choose your evidence. For the section on women, you can take much of the material from your older paper, and add some more from the digital archive.
For African Americans, go through Valley of the Shadow and collect all the information that relates in some way to issues of race and organize them into themes, for instance: experiences of slaves; newspaper representations of African Americans, attitudes of the two counties toward emancipation, etc.
3) Organize the material in such a way that you can make an argument in your conclusion about the similarities and differences between the 2 counties (Franklin in a free state and Augusta in a slave state). For instance, did women in the 2 sections have different attitudes toward slavery, Lincoln, the war, their roles in the war? DId newspapers in the two sections produce similar or different images of slavery and Black people?