Review Questions Chapter 11

1. What does Frederick Douglass story tell you about all people involved in slavery?

 

2. How had cotton come to dominate southern agriculture? How important is cotton to England, New England and northern merchants? What effect did it have on migration of whites and blacks? How does cotton cause some to believe the south was dependent on slavery? How many different types of jobs to slave have in the south?

 

3. Who is the aristocratic class in the south? How do these aristocrats expect to be treated? How does slaves ownership relate to political prestige?

 

4. Why do white non-slave owners support the institution of slavery? Looking at the graph on page 269 what per cent of white's living in the South had no slaves? What per cent had between 10-99 slaves? How are many whites hurt by slavery?

 

5. Looking at the map on page 271 where did most Free Blacks live? In what states were most of the people Black?

 

6. How were lives of black and white women very much a like and yet different in the South?

 

7. How does the South attempt to defend the concepts of slavery? What does Nat Turner and other rebellions show about slavery?

 

8. What was the staple of the a slaves diet? How was life different for slaves depending on where they worked and who they worked for? What type of family life was there for slaves? How did Christianity effect the life of those people who were slaves?

 

9. What is the Brer Rabbit story really about?

 

10. How did blacks resist slavery? What does Nat Turner and other rebellions show about slavery?

 

11. What were the lives of free blacks like?