Freedom, Enslavement & Resistance unit test

Slave codes

Everyday resistance

Contraband and self-emancipation in the Civil War

Black press: Freedom's Journal (1827)

Cotton gin (1793) and slavery's expansion

Denmark Vesey (1822)

Chattel slavery

Domestic slave trade after 1808

Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)

Task system vs gang system

United States Colored Troops

Black Codes (1865–1866)

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION 1: Text-Based Source (4 points). Read the summary of the source. The source is David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, published in Boston in 1829. Walker, a free Black man born in North Carolina who ran a used-clothing shop near the Boston waterfront, argues that Black Americans are the most degraded, wretched and abject set of beings that ever lived since the world began, and that this condition is the deliberate work of white Americans rather than a natural state. He attacks Thomas Jefferson's claims about Black inferiority in Notes on the State of Virginia directly, arguing that they must be answered by Black writers rather than left to white defenders. He denounces the American Colonization Society's plan to remove free Black people to Africa, insisting that America is more the country of Black Americans than of the whites who enslaved them, since Black labor built its wealth. He calls on the enslaved to acquire education and to resist, and he warns that a nation that will not repent invites its own destruction. Walker arranged for copies to be sewn into the linings of sailors' clothing so that the pamphlet would circulate in southern ports; several southern states responded by criminalizing its distribution and by tightening laws against Black literacy.