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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said this in their account of slavery: "They never got nary a lick of labor and nary a red penny for any of them babies."?
(a) Ella Wilson.
(b) Henry Johnson.
(c) Roberta Manson.
(d) Ida Hutchinson.

2. What was the name of the white man who taught his black son to call him "Papa" instead of "Master?"
(a) Byrl Anderson.
(b) Frank Cooper.
(c) Charley Williams.
(d) Powhatan Mitchell.

3. What is one way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders asked the Africans to visit their ship then captured them.
(b) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.
(c) Slave traders tranquilized Africans, then captured them.
(d) The slave traders would lie in wait for the Africans then capture them.

4. Slaves knew they were enslaved because of what two reasons?
(a) Free labor and money resulting from it and selling slaves.
(b) Money from selling slaves and stealing from other slave owners.
(c) Free labor and the large supply of blacks.
(d) Stealing from other slave owners and free labor.

5. What is a third way early slave trades were carried out?
(a) Slave traders started fights with Africans, making bets that if the Africans lost, they would have to become slaves.
(b) African chiefs were tricked into "loaning out" tribesmen as indentured servants.
(c) African chiefs made deals with one another to trade their own tribesmen and prisoners to the white traders for goods.
(d) Slave traders would drug Africans and steal them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area?

2. What is another way early slave trades were carried out?

3. The slave trading was much like today's ____________________.

4. The cotton picking season began when?

5. What was the main plant that was in need of constant care by the slaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were many of the former slaves that the Federal Writer's Project interviewed bitter?

2. What was the KKK and what did they do?

3. From Chapter 4, discuss how slave owners brainwashed slaves.

4. From Chapter 2, discuss the story of Eliza and why it is an uncommon one.

5. Briefly describe a typical plantation.

6. What was it that kept many slaves from killing their masters? Who is an example of one such slave who demonstrated this?

7. Describe what the slave coffle was.

8. What were three ways that the Prologue mentions in which slave trading was carried out?

9. Briefly describe the slave trading market.

10. After emancipation, what did many of the ex-slaves to do attempt to survive? Did this work?

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