2. Which revivalist preacher used profits from slave labor to build an orphanage?
(a) George Whitefield.
(b) Jonathan Edwards.
(c) Solomon Stoddard.
(d) Richard Allen.

3. What statement is NOT true of Charles Grandison Finney?
(a) He advocated for Black emancipation.
(b) He supported racial desegregation.
(c) He allowed Black people to join his church.
(d) He was an outspoken abolitionist.

4. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1764.

5. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?
(a) Historical survey.
(b) Historical nonfiction.
(c) Historical fiction.
(d) Biography.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which enslaved person wrote an autobiography chronicling his experiences in the Middle Passage?

2. Which piece of legislation prohibited Black people from gathering without white supervision?

3. Which group received additional rights after the Revolutionary War?

4. How does Tisby perceive racism?

5. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the concept of "hereditary heathenism," outlined by Tisby in Chapter 2?

2. Why did Johnathan Edwards oppose the African slave-trade?

3. What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?

4. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

5. What decisions were made at the Baptist General Committee of Virginia in 1790?

6. Many white Christians believe that individual conversation and a spiritual awakening will naturally lead to racial equality. What is Tisby's perspective?

7. Why did some slaveowners prefer to enslave Africans rather than Native Americans, as explained by Tisby?

8. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

9. Why did the Episcopalian diocese originally refuse to admit St. Philip's church?

10. What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

(see the answer keys)

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