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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Plantation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the reason for the months that slave traders chose to have slave coffles?
(a) The weather made it easier to hold auctions.
(b) It was the time that plantation work was the lightest and new slaves could adjust.
(c) It was the time plantation work was the heaviest so slave owners needed new hardworking slaves.
(d) It was the time that slave owners preferred to work.

2. Many of the white men and black slave children had what sort of unique bond, though not always acknowledged?
(a) Father and son/daughter.
(b) Master and slave.
(c) Master and servant.
(d) Father and slave.

3. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area?
(a) He knew the people who bid on him.
(b) He knew he would go to someone better than his current master.
(c) He knew he could run away before being bought.
(d) He knew he would not be sold again after this time.

4. This second group of people were not slaves but rather called __________________.
(a) Servants.
(b) Indentured servants.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Laboreres.

5. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.
(a) Slave-collecting.
(b) Slave-breeding.
(c) Slave-selling.
(d) Slave-auctioning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?

2. What was the weigh-in time?

3. Mammy referred to her slave days as what?

4. What was the title for the trusted slave that would often help administer whippings to other slaves?

5. What percentage of the South owned no slaves?

(see the answer key)

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