Directions: Read Each Question Carefully and Answer in Sentence Form

To Be A Slave Name:

Directions: Read each question carefully and answer in sentence form.

1. Who wrote this book?

2. Which country introduced Africans to Europe in the early 16th century?

3. What is the first group of people that the colonist tried out as slaves?

4. Why did the attempt to use this first group of people for manual labor fail for the English Colonists?

5. Who attempted to gain favor of his master by accomplishing satisfactory deeds in hopes of becoming a house servant?

6. What was the second group of people that the colonists tried to use for manual labor?

7. What was the second group of people called not slaves but rather?

8. What was the reason for the months that slave traders chose to have slave coffles?

9. Why were the Africans finally selected by the colonists to be slaves?

10. What was a second reason Africans appealed to the colonists as slaves? 11. A slave who helped the overseer on the plantation was known as a? 12. What did the overseers term the slaves' acts of ignorance?

13. What was most likely the outfit a slave wore to work out in the field?

14. A slave coffle was a what?

15. During which months were the slave coffles usually seen?

16. In 1860, less than ______slave owners owned more than ______slaves.

17. What part of the South’s white population did not own slaves?

18. In southern society, a man's status was based upon:

19. White preachers told slaves that they should do what?

20. Whose account supports the author's claim that slave traders often used tricks to make the slaves appear well-groomed and healthy for the day of the auction?

21. What was the advantage to a slave for being sold in an auction that took place in his area? 22. What stinging word did the slaves take and make their own to lessen its effects?

23. The behavior the overseers called “RASCALITY” was actually what?

24. How much time did the slaves typically get for a break?

25. Some slaves preferred what over being captured after running away?

26. Many insurrections never went past talking stages because slaves lacked what?

27. Who was the President of the Confederacy?

28. What year was the Emancipation Proclamation declared?

29. During the Civil War, what role did most African-Americans play?

30. When it seemed like the South might lose the war, some slave owners did what?

31. If Lincoln's plan had been carried out, what does Rhody Holsell feel could have been prevented for the blacks?

32. Why were Native African slaves more fortunate than slaves born into slavery?

33. The Union Army left the South when? 34. What was the name of the white terrorist group formed at the end of the Civil War?

35. After working for a "share" for a while, what ended up happening to many of the ex slaves?

36. What was the overall sentiment from the blacks that were interviewed by the Federal Writer's Project?

37. How did many blacks feel about Harriet Beecher Stowe?

38. What did the slaves use religion for?

39. What did Solomon Northup almost do?

40. Lincoln's plan for the blacks after emancipation was similar to what was done to which group of people?

Essay: An essay should include the following: opening, body, and close. Each of these paragraphs should have at least FIVE sentences each. The opening introduces the information in the body, the body tells all the facts and the close gives you the results of the event.

Imagine you are a slave who has just learned that you are free. Write a journal entry about how you feel and what you do after receiving this joyous news.