Slavery in the Bible
Every seven years, Hebrew slaves were set free on...
What is the year of Jubilee?
The way children were fed at the plantation
What is in one big trough where they ate cornmeal mush with either muscle shells or their hands?
Who is Mrs. Auld?
The way Douglass learned how to write..
What is by betting the neighborhood boys that they could not spell a word and then watching them spell it?
Europeans brought slavery to Africa.
False: slavery existed in Africa prior to the European slave trade.
The type of slavery where the slave is considered the property of the slave owner
What is chattel slavery?
The reason slaves did not know their birthdays
What is masters did not want them to have the individuality that a birthday gives?
The slave "breaker" who Douglass beat up...
Who is Mr. Covey?
The effect learning to read had on Douglass...
What is the desire to be free?
Slaves were mostly traded to North America.
False: the majority of slaves were actually sold to the Caribbean islands, Central America, and South America.
If an indentured slave chose to stay with his master forever, this would occur to his body...
What is his ear would be pierced?
The reason slaves were not taught to read...
What is reading promotes independence and free thinking?
The city where Douglass lived with the Auld family...
The job Douglass did when his master allowed him to work on his own, as long as he gave his master $3 a week and paid all his own expenses.
What was calking?
Four out of five of the first U.S. Presidents owned slaves.
True. The only one who did not was John Adams.
The slave in book of Philemon who Paul sent back to his master...
Who is Onesimus?
The effect owning a slave had on sweet Mrs. Auld...
What is "tiger-like fierceness?"
The city Douglass escapes to.
What is New York?
Douglass' strategy to avoid being whipped by his owners.
What was "blow for blow?" He decided if he was hit, he would defend himself.
The primary way that the Atlantic slave trade obtained slaves was by buying them from other Africans.
True.
In Philemon, what did Paul tell Philemon to do to his slave?
What is receive him as a brother in Christ?
The way slaves were treated when they were being assessed for valuation...
What is the same way as animals; teeth and bodies checked?
The name of the woman Frederick Douglass marries.
In his escape from slavery, Douglass received help from people involved in this movement.
What is Abolitionism?
The Dred Scott case was only about if Dred Scott was free or not.
False: the Dred Scott case was primarily about the Constitutionality of "slavery free" zones and the nature of citizenship.