AFA2000 Quiz 2

How early did blacks play an important role in Spain's efforts to gain a foothold in North America?

In which colonies did slaves have Negro Election day?

In 1785, who founded the "Society for Promoting the manumission of Slaves"?

Who made specific references to blacks and blamed King George the III for the slave trade in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?

African slaves, especially from the region between Gambia and Senegal rivers came to Louisiana with prior knowledge of cultivating _______________.

Which colony in the Northern region had the largest number of slaves throughout the eighteenth century?

The founding Fathers' devotion to freedom for all whites, which elevated them above all black slaves led historian Edmund Morgan to label it what?

What English colony was the first to give legal sanction to slavery and in what year?

What was North America's first antislavery society called?

Which Colony enacted an Act in 1712 that presumed that every Negro is a Slave?

Which region was known for having a large number of slaves that lived together on plantation units?

Which royal governor issued a proclamation to free slaves and indentured servants?

Which state constitution was the first to outlaw slavery and in what year?

What settlement, founded in 1565, became the oldest of the successful European settlements

Which region of colonial North America had the smallest black population?

Which colony had the largest number of slaves in the North throughout the eighteenth century?

Who famously asked, "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty from the drivers of Negroes"?

All of the following statements about Phillis Wheatley are true EXCEPT