In 1794, Absalom Jones and Richard Allen published A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People during the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in order to
a. chastise black Americans for having failed to help the people of Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic.
b. disprove arguments that escaped slaves had deliberately infected the population of Philadelphia with yellow fever.
c. refute allegations that blacks had used the yellow fever epidemic as an opportunity to plunder the homes of Philadelphians.
d. urge black readers to abandon their attempts to live up to white Americans’ ideas of “respectability” and instead to find freedom in nonconformity.
c. refute allegations that blacks had used the yellow fever epidemic as an opportunity to plunder the homes of Philadelphians.
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As with the Sea Peoples, archaeologists have recently argued that the Hyksos
A) were disruptive migrants rather than violent invaders. B) had little long-term impact on Near Eastern societies. C) did far more damage to Near Eastern societies than was once thought. D) elevated their importance by effective use of propaganda. E) may have been of sub-Saharan African rather than Near Eastern origin.
The first person to use race to explain human history was __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Colonial American society was organized according to a belief in
a. a strong middle class. b. a classless society. c. the superiority of English ancestry. d. inequality.
The so-called Locofocos of the 1830s were
A. defenders of monopolies. B. radical Democrats. C. western farmers. D. radical abolitionists. E. southern slaveholders.