How were Africans taken from their native continent? How were these individuals transported to the American continents?
Vocabulary:
narrative (14)
susceptible (17)
inexhaustible (18)
align (20)
stupor (21)
Pages 28 - 42
What were some of the ways that slaves dealt with the horrible conditions they faced?
Vocabulary:
reckon (30)
dexterity (35)
assurance (39)
inhuman (42)
Pages 43 - 58
How were slaves bought and sold in the southern states? How would a purchased slave arrive at their new place of employ?
Vocabulary:
fluctuate (44)
vicinity (46)
synonymous (48)
rare (51)
stout (54)
Pages 59 - 75
In what ways was cotton important to the lives of some slaves?
Vocabulary:
cultivate (61)
convulsions (63)
cumbersome (69)
delinquent (72)
Pages 76 - 89
In what physical and mental ways were slaves kept in their enslavement?
Vocabulary:
inferior (76)
torment (82)
maim (85)
abode (88)
Pages 90 - 105
What are a few examples of "rascality" Why wopuld some slaves choose to behave in this manner?
Vocabulary:
adjacent (91)
vanity (94)
insubordination (96)
duplicity (99)
Pages 106 - 116
In what ways was music important to those trapped in slavery?
Vocabulary:
portentous (111)
obligation (115)
miry (115)
gambol (116)
Pages 117 - 129
What options (legal and illegal) would slaves have if they did not want to labor?
Vocabulary:
insurrection (117)
reign (119)
solitary (123)
magnitude (129)
Pages 130 - 143
Why do you think slaves would have different reactions to the end of their enslavement?
Vocabulary:
intent (1340)
emancipation (133)
eloquent (143)
Pages 144 - 156
Did freeing the slaves of the south make them immediately better off? Why or why not?
Vocabulary:
inadequate (144)
deduct (146)
segregation (150)
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