Assume the role of a typical slave in pre-Civil War America. Describe your environment, your behavior, and your feelings about your situation
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: likely to have lived on a plantation; lived in crowded and unsanitary slave quarters cabin; unvaried and poorly nutritious diet; worked long and hard days; close family ties (immediate and kinship); fear of being sold away from family, sexual exploitation; religious ceremonies celebrating hope, love, deliverance, etc.
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Phillis Wheatley was one of several African Americans in the 1760s and 1770s who questioned publicly the contradiction between the political rhetoric of democracy, revolution, and liberty on the one hand, and enforcing slavery on the other
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Ashoka used the word "dharma" to mean
a. caste obligation. b. good versus evil. c. the spiritual quest of a leader to properly govern his people. d. the hidden truths of all religions. e. the teachings of the Buddha.
The group most likely to experience body dissatisfaction related to the ideal of thinness is:
a. White lesbians. b. African American women. c. White heterosexual women. d. both a & c.
Perhaps the greatest success story in Africa in recent decades as been in South Africa where in the 1990s
a. the black minority achieved equal rights as the result of a successful revolution. b. the white majority granted economic equality to the nation's black population. c. apartheid was abolished and non-whites achieved political and social equality. d. F. W. de Klerk was elected the nation's first black prime minister. e. separate regions were set aside for the country's black population.