Give Me Liberty! Ch. 11

The Virginia writer George Fitzhugh believed that slaves and slaveowners shared a "community of interest." Yet since the slaves lacked economic cares __________.

"the slaves of the South are the happiest, and in some degree, the freest people in the world"

In the Old South, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately __________.

25%

Nat Turner led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about __________.

60 whites

In 1839, fifty-three slaves took control of this ship in an attempt to reroute to Africa.

Amistad

Blacks, free and slave, took part in the Great Awakening of the colonial area, and even more were swept into these southern religions during religious revivals into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries: __________.

Baptist and Methodist

The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was __________.

Frederick Douglass

What was not true of slavery's impact on the northern economy?

Slave labor in the southern Cotton Belt undermined industrial production in the North

What happened to the 135 enslaved persons who in 1841 seized the ship, the Creole, and sailed to Nassau in search of freedom?

They were given refuge in the British Caribbean.

The southern state with the highest population of free blacks was __________.

Virginia

As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often __________.

broke tools

By 1860, more than half of the United States' exports were in __________.

cotton

"Slave patrols" were __________.

farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves

In most Latin American nations, the end of slavery followed the pattern established earlier in the northern United States— __________.

gradual emancipation accompanied by some kind of recognition of the owners' legal right to property in slaves

In the mid 1800s, few plantations had dedicated buildings for slave worship so most slaves worshipped __________.

in secret or in biracial churches with white ministers

In American slave culture, jumping over a broomstick was associated with which of the following acts?

marriage

Most slaves who arrived in the North as a means of escaping slavery did so __________.

on their own initiative

By the eve of the Civil War, free blacks in the South were allowed to own __________.

property

What was the result of the Missouri court case involving the "crime" of Celia?

she was sentenced to death

Henry "Box" Brown escaped slavery by __________.

shipping himself in a crate from Georgia to the North

In 1860, the largest economic investment in the United States was in __________.

slaves

Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were __________.

smaller and less frequent

While owners attempted to prevent slaves from learning about the larger world, slaves created neighborhood networks, __________.

such as transmitting information gained on ships

Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by __________.

task labor

John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered "the most false and dangerous of all political errors" __________.

that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty

The Second Middle Passage was the slave trade from __________.

the older states to the Lower South