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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 2 The Choked Voices of a Race at Last Unloosed.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. General Benjamin F. Butler declared slaves ______________ of war and put them to work.
(a) Spoils.
(b) Victims.
(c) Contraband.
(d) Prisoners.

2. Few slaves knew how to ___________ before they entered the military.
(a) Take orders.
(b) Read or write.
(c) March.
(d) Shoot a gun.

3. As the Union Army moved further into the South, the volume of slave fugitives ___________.
(a) Increased.
(b) Decreased.
(c) Stayed the same.
(d) Was not measured.

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

5. Slave congregations pulsed not only with ____________, but also with collective deliberation.
(a) Religion.
(b) Anger.
(c) Passion.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Due to the increase in slave ___________, a structure of kinship relationships and practices developed.

2. The most prominent example of black self-management was at ____________, the plantations owned by President Jefferson Davis.

3. Solidarities were created by the political _______________ of African Americans.

4. This book is about how African Americans became involved in a(n) ____________ struggle.

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

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