WorksheetsAfrican-American literature, late 1700s-1800s
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 3mins
Which speech did we read by Frederick Douglass?
"In the Land of the Free"
"The World Needs All Kinds of Minds"
"What the Black Man Wants"
"What Is the Slave to the Fourth of July?"
Slave ____________ by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Olaudah Equiano, and other writers told the harrowing real-life experiences of slaves' lives.
Poetry
Narratives
Journalism
Fiction
Who was the U.S. Poet Laureate in the 1850s?
Phillis Wheatley
Sojourner Truth
Olaudah Equiano
None of these
In class, we watched a video featuring several different people reading parts of Douglass's "What Is the Slave to the Fourth of July" speech. Who were the speakers?
Historians
Douglass's descendants
Actors
Academic scholars specializing in African-American studies
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought over three million slaves to which country?
Brazil
Cuba
Jamaica
United States
Until it ended in 1860s, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade brought approximately how many slaves to the United States?
50,000
100,000
300,000
300,500,000
