Slavery & Abolition

Question 1

1450s

Answer 1

African slave trade to Spanish Americas began

Question 2

1619

Answer 2

First African slaves brought to British North America

Question 3

1767

Answer 3

Abolishment of slavery in the Northern colonies

Question 4

1791

Answer 4

First Fugitive slave act granted slaveholders right to hunt fugitive slaves in the north and bring them back South

Question 5

1807

Answer 5

Embargo act prohibited importion

Of slaves to US: continuing demand kept trade alive

Question 6

1820 & 1850

Answer 6

Missouri compromise and compromise of 1850 regulated extension of slavery to the new US territories

Question 7

1850

Answer 7

Second fugitive slave act obliged Northerners to help catch fugitive slaves and return them south

Question 8

Principles of north American slavery

Answer 8

• chattel slavery
• Racialized slavery
• slavery for life
• perpetuation of slavery

Question 9

Chattel slavery

Answer 9

Slaves were not considered human beings but moveable property without ANY rights

Question 10

Racialized slavery

Answer 10

Only Africans/people of African descent enslaved; skin color was declared Marker of racial inferiority/lack of civilization

Question 11

Slavery for life

Answer 11

Unless one was freed with one’s owner’s permission, One was a slave for life

Question 12

Perpetuation slavery

Answer 12

Any child to a slave mother was automatically a slave and properly of its mothers owner

Question 13

Abolitionism

Answer 13

International movement to end slavery and the slave trade through political campaigns, help to fugitive slave, and informing the public; Rose in US north since 1830s

-> even when they rejected slavery, most whites did not regard Lex is equal and rejected miscegenation

Question 14

1862

Answer 14

Emancipation proclamation liberates all slaves (Aberham Lincoln)

Question 15

1865

Answer 15

13th amendment to the US Constitution prohibits slavery throughout The US

Question 16

1866

Answer 16

Civil rights act grand US citizenship to blacks

Question 17

The slave narrative

Answer 17

• autobiography of a former slave in North America or the Caribbean, recounting narrator’s bondage, escape and freedom
• first characteristic literary form of black expression in the Americas; immersed in 1760s, heyday in 1830s to 1850s
• drew On the Bible, abolitionist rhetorical, (spiritual or secular) autobiography and Indian captivity narrative

Question 18

Major functions

Answer 18

• document facts and condition of slavery
• persuade readers of slavery is evils
• affirm narrator’s personhood and authority to speak
• undermine White racist stereotypes of blacks

Question 19

Major elements of the slave narrative

Answer 19

• plain style and discourse of modesty to win Redus favor
• reference to key texts of US culture to urge Readers to recognize slavery’s break with secular and religious Ideals
• censorship to match wild Rita’s expectations and biases (no slave revolts, balanced depiction of whites)

Question 20

Typical structure of slave narrative

Answer 20

• pre-face verifying the narrator’s truth claims
• scenes showing cruelty of slavery (separation of families slaves auctions and whippings)
• example of thwarted unsuccessful escapes
• appendix with documents providing accuracy of the text