Final Exam Black Masters Cards

Question 1

Denmark Vesey

Answer 1

• plotted full-scale insurrection against white power in Charleston
• believed slavery was contrary to God’s Will
• Planned on midnight on July 14th to attack the city arsenal, capture its weapons, kill all the whites they encountered, and set fire to the city
• believed many whites must die if blacks were to be free
• He was betrayed
• Vesey was a free man that could have left the slave society at any time, but was also a visionary
• His leadership of a slave conspiracy linked all free blacks to the uprising even though elite free people of color in Charleston cooperated with the cities whites to crush the rebellion

Question 2

Similarities and differences between Ellison and Vesey

Answer 2

Vesey wanted to remake his world in the name of freedom and Ellison only wanted to make freedom work for him

Question 3

Whites had a divided mind about free blacks

Answer 3

• whites feared them as disciples of Denmark Vesey and thus wanted to separate them as much as possible from association with slaves and from identification with their plight
• on the other hand, whites despised free Negroes (except of the few “respectable” individuals they might know personally) because of the inferiority of their race and thus sought to push them down to the status of slave

Question 4

April Ellison

Answer 4

• born a slave in SC
• cotton gin maker
• mulatto
• bought his freedom and his wife’s freedom
• became a planter and owned slaves
• became respected to whites
• was better off than many whites

Question 5

Act of 1820

Answer 5

prohibited slaveholders to make personal manumissions

Question 6

During the Civil War

Answer 6

He and his sons supported the Confederate Army

Question 7

James D Johnson

Answer 7

• mulatto
• tailor
• Had two kids, James and Charley
• bought 4 slaves and had small lot
• family ties beetween Johnsons and Ellison’s were constantly reinforced

Question 8

James M Johnson

Answer 8

• Married Ellison’s son

Question 9

Jefferson

Answer 9

approved of colonization in Liberia and was racist

Question 10

Lincoln

Answer 10

also in favor of colonization

Question 11

Southerners views on slavery

Answer 11

stopped saying it was a necessary evil and began saying it was a positive good

Question 12

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 12

• were not citizens within the meaning of the consitution and that slave or free the Consitution did not apply to them because they were property

Question 13

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 13

quickened pace of deliberations about outlawing freedom for slaves

Question 14

Most satistfying way to attain consistency was to

Answer 14

have free Afro-Americans volunteer to become slaves