Homework answers / question archive /  1)Why was cotton cultivation central to the expansion of slavery?       2     How did the duties of house slaves and skilled slaves differ from those of urban and agricultural slavery? 3      What was the role of punishment in slavery? 4       What were the characteristics of the domestic slave trade between 1820 and 1860? 5      What were the conditions that shaped family life and the health and welfare of slaves? 6       How did African Americans adapt to life under slavery, and what role did religion play? 7      How have historians evaluated slavery and slaves?     Reading question answers: 6-2 What do you think about Kennedy’s description of slave life? Is it accurate? How does it compare to other accounts you have read?     Although swallow barn is a novel, it reveals what Kennedy thought about African American

 1)Why was cotton cultivation central to the expansion of slavery?       2     How did the duties of house slaves and skilled slaves differ from those of urban and agricultural slavery? 3      What was the role of punishment in slavery? 4       What were the characteristics of the domestic slave trade between 1820 and 1860? 5      What were the conditions that shaped family life and the health and welfare of slaves? 6       How did African Americans adapt to life under slavery, and what role did religion play? 7      How have historians evaluated slavery and slaves?     Reading question answers: 6-2 What do you think about Kennedy’s description of slave life? Is it accurate? How does it compare to other accounts you have read?     Although swallow barn is a novel, it reveals what Kennedy thought about African American

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 1)Why was cotton cultivation central to the expansion of slavery?

 

 

 

2     How did the duties of house slaves and skilled slaves differ from those of urban and agricultural slavery?

3      What was the role of punishment in slavery?

4       What were the characteristics of the domestic slave trade between 1820 and 1860?

5      What were the conditions that shaped family life and the health and welfare of slaves?

6       How did African Americans adapt to life under slavery, and what role did religion play?

7      How have historians evaluated slavery and slaves?

 

 

Reading question answers:

6-2

1. What do you think about Kennedy’s description of slave life? Is it accurate? How does it compare to other accounts you have read?

 

 

2. Although swallow barn is a novel, it reveals what Kennedy thought about African American. Kennedy uses these views to justify slavery. What are those views?

 

 

 

6-3

1. How would Henry Watson’s narrative have been used by abolitionists?

 

 

2. What do you think of the atrocities reported here? Do you think the story moved people to action?

 

 

3. Although the narratives is probably accurate, it quite possibly written by northern abolitionist who are transcribing Watson’s story. What evidence do you see of this? Does it diminish the impact of the story?

 

6-5

1. Like Henry Watson’s account of slave auctions, Harriet Jacobs’s narrative was probably edited extensively by white abolitionists. Does this diminish its impact? Is all history somehow edited from the actual narrative?

 

2. Accounts of abuse within slavery are spread across time and location, form colonial America to the Civil War. How does Harriet Jacobs’s accounts of sexual exploitation affect your view of slavery?

 

 

3. Why do think women, by and large, have received less attention than men in the tale of slavery?

 

6-6

1. The role of Islam within slavery is not as widely studies as that f protestant religions. Why do think this is?
2. What does Seid’s narrative tell us about his treatment? Did different slave owners treat their slave differently? Does this diminish the moral question of slavery? Why or why not?