Answer the following questions using pages 133 - 143 in your textbook:

Slavery in the New World:

1. In what year did the African slave trade to the New World begin?
2. How was slavery in the New World different from slavery that existed elsewhere?
3. Who were the earliest black people to come to North America?
4. What was the “middle passage”?
5. How was chattel slavery different from the system of indentures?

African American Writers in the Revolutionary Era:

6. What argument did early black writers use to appeal to the social conscience of Americans?
7. Who gave the English-speaking world its first eyewitness account of the slave trade?
8. What argument did Benjamin Banneker use in his letter to Thomas Jefferson?
9. How did Phillis Wheatley appeal to Christian ideals?
10. How did early black writers cause readers to revise their prejudices against Africans?

Sectional Conflicts over Slavery:

11. What was the major political conflict between the free states and slave states at the beginning of the 19th Century?
12. How did Congress respond to this conflict?
13. What was William Lloyd Garrison’s role in the antislavery movement?
14. How did proslavery propagandists defend the institution of slavery?
15. How did fugitive slaves help the antislavery cause?

Slave Narratives:

16. What makes Douglass’s Narrative an outstanding contribution to American autobiographical literature?
17. Name two women who spoke and wrote of their struggles against slavery.
18. Why was Harriet Tubman called “the moses of her people”?

First African American Literary Renaissance:

19. What period is known as the first African American literary renaissance?
20. Who wrote the first African American play and novel?
21. What were the names of these two works?
22. What work did Martin Delany write?
23. Name works of fiction by Frances Harper and Harriet Wilson?
24. What was Harper’s reputation in the mid-nineteenth century?

The Oral Tradition:

25. What is meant by the “double meaning” of the spirituals?
26. Who is the most important trickster figure in African American folklore?

African Americans and the Union Cause:

27. Which political party did Abraham Lincoln represent?
28. What event marked the outbreak of hostilities between the North and the South?
29. How did the Emancipation Proclamation link the Union cause with the abolition of slavery?
30. When were black soldiers recruited for service in the Union Army?
31. Which amendment to the United States Constitution made slavery illegal throughout the Union?
32. Have you seen the movie “Amistead”? If so, what did you think?
33. Have you seen the movie “Glory”? If so, what how did you feel?