TOPIC 2.7/2.8 Lesson

​https://www.searchablemuseum.com/colonial-slave-laws

​https://inside.sfuhs.org/dept/history/US_History_reader/Chapter1/1740SlaveCodes.pdf

​https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-1/#article-1-section-2-clause-3

​https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-4/

​https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/negro-womens-children-to-serve-according-to-the-condition-of-the-mother-1662/

​https://www.thebaltimorestory.org/history-1/1662-racial-chattel-slavery-permanent-and-inheritable

Multiple Choice

Which colony implemented the Code Noir as a set of slave laws?

• English colonies

• French colonies

• Spanish colonies

• Dutch colonies

Multiple Choice

How did slave codes define the condition of chattel slavery?

• As a voluntary labor agreement

• As a temporary condition based on debt

• As a race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition

• As a form of indentured servitude

Multiple Choice

How did South Carolina's 1740 slave code respond to the Stono Rebellion?

• By prohibiting enslaved people from gathering, drumming, and learning to read

• By granting enslaved people more rights

• By banning all forms of punishment

• By abolishing slavery in the colony

Multiple Select

Which clauses embedded slavery into the nation’s founding document, protecting slaveholders' interests. (Select ALL that apply).

• Seperate but Equal

• Fugitive Slave Clause

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Clause prohibiting Congress from banning the slave trade until 1808

Multiple Choice

Which U.S. Supreme Court case declared that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens?

• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education

Multiple Choice

What legal principle determined a child's enslaved status based on their mother?

• Habeas corpus

• Partus sequitur ventrem
• In loco parentus

• Three-Fifths Compromise

Multiple Choice

What was the significance of the image “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” published in 1849 in The Liberator?

• It was a promotional piece for slavery.

• It focused solely on women's suffrage without mentioning slavery.
• It was used to promote the idea that women, particularly black women, were inferior.

• It represented the struggle for both women's rights and the abolition of slavery, emphasizing the shared humanity of all women.