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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 1 Of Chains and Threads.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An aspect that has often been overlooked in the literature on slavery is ____________ between slaves.
(a) Exchanges.
(b) Dispute resolution.
(c) Infighting.
(d) Committments.

2. African Americans exposed the complex and contradictory relationship between labor and _____________.
(a) Rights.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Peace.
(d) Democracy.

3. What is NOT one of the things which Hahn sees as being embraced after the struggles were defeated and the goals rejected?
(a) Self-help.
(b) Voting laws.
(c) Separatism.
(d) Emigrationism.

4. When African Americans were slaves or freed people, the overwhelming majority of them were _____________.
(a) Slaves.
(b) Workers.
(c) Battered.
(d) Ignored.

5. Hahn argues that African Americans contributed to the formation of a new ___________ nation.
(a) Democratic.
(b) Political.
(c) Equal.
(d) Free.

Short Answer Questions

1. Those slaves who remained in the south began to take over their master's "____________" plantations.

2. Slaveholders tolerated some economic activities from slaves. Which of these is NOT one of the tolerated activities?

3. Southern slaveholders tried to encourage and organize communities centered on the ____________.

4. In what area of the country does Hahn focus the contents of this book he has compiled?

5. What is NOT one of the types of plantations on which the slaves in the south used to work?

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