Slavery in American, Post Revolution

Question 1

Statistics from the first U.S. Census in 1790

Answer 1

17.8% (700,000) people were slaves

Question 2

Alexander Hamilton (Slavery)

Answer 2

“Not those who hold a bill of Rights in one hand and a whip in the other?”

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson, 1782 (Unhappy)

Answer 3

“There must be an unhappy influence on our people produced by the existence of slavery among us.”

Question 4

Historian Sylvia Frey (Motion)

Answer 4

“The American Revolution set in motion the forces that would destroy slavery in the United States.”

Question 5

Statistics from historian Peter Kolchin (Slavery)

Answer 5

“By 1810, only 7.2 percent of northern blacks were slaves from 40%.”

Question 6

Historian David Brion Davis (Slavery)

Answer 6

“The American Revolution, for all its appeal to the rights of man, did little to weaken the institution of slavery.”