What was the vision of revolution that many African Americans held prior to the American Revolution?
How did the vision of revolution of many African Americans differ from that of most whites in the colonies?
Answer: An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss that one key component of African Americans' vision of the coming American Revolution included the complete abolishment of slavery in all 13 colonies.
2. Discuss that African Americans vision of the coming Revolution also included outlawing the slave trade in the United States.
3. Discuss how African Americans such as poet Phillis Wheatley were motivated by English poets, Christianity, and discussions of democracy to develop a vision of freedom that included white colonists as well as African slaves.
4. Discuss how some whites, such as the Quakers, embraced the vision of Revolutionary freedom that would include abolition of slavery throughout the colonies.
5. Discuss how some whites hoped the coming American Revolution would be the capstone of a legal evolution in the United States favoring judicially successful challenges of slaves seeking their freedom.
6. Discuss how some whites' conception of freedom that would come with a political revolution could not be enjoyed by African American slaves because of their perceived inferior intellectual and emotional status.
7. Discuss how the highly profitable condition of the colonial slave trade made even whites who intellectually equated revolutionary freedom for whites with freedom for African American slaves reluctant to support abolishing slavery and the slave trade in all 13 colonies.
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As a result of their participation in the war effort, African Americans __________
a. faced even worse discrimination in America b. became more accepting of the conditions they faced c. found greater acceptance of their place in American society d. were more and more inclined to fight discrimination e. generally were allowed to remain in Europe
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century,
a. the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country shifted. b. the British government was pleased that more workers would be available to fill an increasing need for laborers in Britain. c. the need for slave labor declined. d. the rate of immigration from Europe slowed. e. the British government granted greater autonomy to colonial governments.
A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that __________.
A. slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers B. slaves were becoming Christianized and thus their souls would be saved C. slave children played with white children D. slaves lived better on southern plantations than the natives in Africa
The most common form of slave resistance was
A. theft. B. rebellion. C. escape. D. refusal to work.