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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The cotton picking season began when?
2. What is true about slaves and their living on plantations?
3. The job of a slaver trader was to sell the slave to the _____________.
4. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.
5. What was the reason for the months that slave traders chose to have slave coffles?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the story of Blackshear and what was the significance?
2. Discuss what Patsy Michener meant when she said, "Two snakes full of poison. One lying with his head pointed north, the other with his head pointing south."?
3. Who is Mr. Wilson described by Ball in the Prologue and what is his story?
4. From Chapter 4, discuss how slave owners brainwashed slaves.
5. Discuss the role of establishing house-servants and what they did.
6. What were some ways in which the slaves learned to resist the brainwashing and dehumanizing tactics of the slave owners?
7. According to Rhody Holsell in the Epilogue, what were Lincoln's plans for the blacks if he had lived and does Holsell agree with the idea?
8. Describe a typical day for a slave working on a plantation.
9. Was the government to blame for the confusion of the freed slaves? Why or why not?
10. In the Epilogue, why does Thomas Hall state that he does not like Lincoln?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is freedom? What is freedom to different groups of men? What did freedom mean to a slave? Slaves certainly wanted it. How did they go about attempting to achieve their freedom both before and after the Emancipation Proclamation? How did the whites feel about the freedom of the slaves both in the North and South? When the slaves did attain freedom, how did they feel?
Essay Topic 2
Sorrow was a major emotion felt by the slaves. Describe what sorrow is and what made the slaves feel this way. Did they always feel sorrow? Why or why not? What did they do in attempts to overcome or mask their sadness?
Essay Topic 3
Fear is universal. It was a feeling that ruled the slaves and the slave owners used to rule. What is fear? How was fear instilled within the slaves and why did it rule them? What did this fear prevent them from doing and how did it keep them this way? Slave owners themselves also held fears. What were they and how did they attempt to hide it from their slaves? Discuss also how fear and power go hand in hand.
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