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(Chapter 6) What inference can you draw about why the Africans were stripped of their clothes before being shipped? (Check all that apply)

• The Africans were stripped of their clothes because they were being given nice suits for the trip.

• The white men didn't want them to have anything that reminded them of their home, so they wouldn't try to escape and go back home.

• The white men didn't want the government to know where these people had come from and the magnitude of what was going on.

• The Africans were stripped of their clothes because the sailors wanted to check them out before sailing to America.

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(Chapter 6) What conclusions can you draw from why the white men took the same amount of men and women on the Clotilda at the same time?

• The white men wanted to pretend to be Noah and the Ark.

• The men knew they would get higher prices for slave men who already ad women to take care of them.

• There really was no reason for that.

• They wanted the Africans to breed with each other so they could have a healthy supply of slaves in America.

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(Chapter 7) The American-born slaves were laughing at the newly arrived slaves' customs and language because they have been brainwashed into believing African culture was meaningless and that they were unintelligent because they did not speak English.

• True

• False

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(Chapter 8) Why do you believe the newly founded town of free slaves still uses the disciplinary tactics of their prior owners as their lawful punishment?

• The slaves were accustomed to being whipped as a punishment. They learned almost everything from white people so they continued the use of the white men´s teachings, dispute the trauma that was inflicted while doing so.

• They were taught not to love one another so the destruction of their community is the only way they know.

• They use those disciplinary tactics because it is effective to keep the African mindful of who is in charge of Africa Town, the white man.

• None of the above.

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(Chapter 9) Why was Cudjo suspicious that the sheriff who killed his son wasn't a law enforcement officer?

• He says you don’t know a man until you know his father and his father before him.

• They were white-washed into believing African culture was meaningless.

• The slaves were accustomed to being whipped as a punishment.

• He didn't arrest his son ¨like a man¨ but hides to shoot him.

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