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Create a fictional character (or real-life character but placed in your creative historical fiction writing) to fit a topic in Chapters 14-15.  Be SPECIFIC, lengthen your paragraphs, and use Internet source if you wish, but keep the comment in your own words.  The SEVEN-PARAGRAPH (or more) comment is due Saturday, November 25, will get a ten-point deduction if not turned in by Thursday, November 30. You can use Internet sources, but use your own words and cite your sources. Your choices are below:1.  You are Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.2. You are Harriet Beecher Stowe receiving praise and blame for your new novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  3. You are Abraham Lincoln debating Stephen Douglas at one of their seven 1858 debates on slavery.4. You are Jeremiah Anderson, an African American member of John Brown’s raiders on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.5. You are Loreta Janeta Velazquez who during the Civil War disguised as Confederate Lieutenant Harry Buford. 6. You are a sailor, either Union or Confederate, at the Battle of the Monitor vs. the Merrimac (Virginia) in 1862. 7. You are a soldier, either Union or Confederate, at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863.8. You are a member of the African American 54th Massachusetts before and during the attack on Fort Wagner.9. You are Clara Barton dealing with the rise of female nursing in the North during the Civil War.10. You are a soldier, Union or Confederate, at the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Courthouse.