5) African American and Abolitionist Literature in the 19th Century

Question 1

When were the first slaves brought to Virginia?

Answer 1

1619

Question 2

Who was Phillis Wheatley?

Answer 2

African American slave, first published African American poet, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Question 3

What was the Figurative Slave Acts about?

Answer 3

Federal law according to witch fugitive slaves captured in free states were to be returned to their owners in the South

Question 4

_________ and ___________ were the only two of the first 12 American presidents who didn’t own slaves

Answer 4

John Adams, John Quincey Adams

Question 5

What was the first organized abolitionist group?

Answer 5

Quakers

Question 6

Describe slavery and racism in the U.S.

Answer 6

the superiority of whites, inferiority of blacks, general belief In black’s intellectual inferiority, illegal to teach black slaves to read and write, brutal, inhuman treatment of slaves, laws against miscegenation

Question 7

Who did the famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech?

Answer 7

Sojourner Truth

Question 8

Who fought in the Civil War?

Answer 8

Union (North, free states) and Confederacy (South, slave states)

Question 9

Who and when won the Civil War?

Answer 9

Union in 1865

Question 10

What was Emancipation Proclamation about?

Answer 10

Proclaimed all the slaves in the Confederate states free, it became a part of the Constitution as the 13th Amendment

Question 11

Name Post-Civil-War Constitutional Amendments

Answer 11

13th- abolishing slavery, 14th- equality before the law, 15th- right to vote for all men regardless of race

Question 12

Frederick Douglass

Answer 12

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Question 13

Harriet Jacobs

Answer 13

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Question 14

What is the theme of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

Answer 14

Sexual abuse of female slaves by their owners

Question 15

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 15

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 16

Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin criticized?

Answer 16

It created many stereotypes about Black people

Question 17

Lydia Maria Child

Answer 17

An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans; Hobomok; The Quadroons

Question 18

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Answer 18

Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects; Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Question 19

William Wells Brown

Answer 19

Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter

Question 20

Name some major American Abolitionists

Answer 20

John Brown, Maria W. Stewart, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, William Wells Brown, Transcendentalists (Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Fuller)

Question 21

Who was active in women’s rights and suffrage movement?

Answer 21

Frederick Douglass

Question 22

Who helped Harriet Jacobs to publish Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

Answer 22

Lydia Maria Child

Question 23

Which novel is considered the first novel published by an African American?

Answer 23

Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter

Question 24

Describe the “tragic mulatta” character, examples

Answer 24

Stereotypical fictional character, mixed-race person, who is assumed to be depressed/suicidal, because they fail to completely fit in the “white world” or the “black world”, victim of the society divided by race- Clotel in Clotel; or, the Presidents Daughter, The Quadroons