1. How Did the Government Support Slavery?

Slavery Reading Questions……

1. How did the government support slavery?

2. Why would someone dance and sing in the evening of the morning he received 200 lashes?

3. Was resistance to slavery more, as much, or less, effective than rebellion? Explain

4. How were the following used as methods of controlling not only the slave population but poor whites as well?

a. Force

b. Segregation

c. Religion

5. How did slaves manage to maintain a community?

6. What does Sarah Logue’s proposal and Logeun’s response reveal about how slavery owners justified slavery?

7. Why would the government never accept an end to slavery through a slave revolt?

8. Was the national government hypocritical when it came to slavery?