What does the story of the Zong reveal about European attitudes toward slavery in the late eighteenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. That slavers took out insurance policies on slaves indicates that slaves were treated like cargo.
b. The owners of the Zong based their lawsuit on private property rights, indicating that the law regarded slaves as property.
c. Outrage over the Zong case reflects the reframing of slavery as a moral rather than a legal issue.
d. Abolitionists pointed to the humanity of slaves and condemned the slave trade.
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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case dealt with Oliver Brown, who was attempting to overturn a segregated school law in:
A) Little Rock, Arkansas. B) Topeka, Kansas. C) Selma, Alabama. D) Albany, Georgia.
The monastery of Cluny was known for all of the following except
A) that it came under direct papal authority. B) the prestige of its abbots. C) the revival of the ascetic eremitic tradition. D) its support of the idea that the church should be free from lay interference. E) being free of all lay and Episcopal control.
What Indians desired most, upon encountering Europeans, was ________
A) cultural enlightenment B) victims for human sacrifice rituals C) religious instruction D) allies to help them defeat their enemies E) commercial relations
How would you explain the stunning military success of the Mongols?
What will be an ideal response?