A) Slaves saw the slaveholder as their true parent.
B) Abolitionists in the North became more accepting of slavery.
C) It could result in fewer sales of slaves and more keeping of slave families together.
D) The owner felt responsible for his slaves because the slaves could not take care of themselves.
E) As slavery became paternalistic,more owners freed their slaves.
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A) was a mythical character about whom runaway slaves told many stories.
B) led a slave rebellion in Maryland in 1849 that resulted in two dozen deaths.
C) although born free in New York,was kidnapped and made a slave in Louisiana.
D) cleverly escaped from slavery by pretending to be a sickly male slaveowner.
E) was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.
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A) system to help slaves escape to the North
B) slave trade within the United States
C) poor work and breakage of tools
D) slavery
E) managed slaves in the field
F) community of freed Virginian slaves
G) treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H) working in the fields side-by-side
I) had one or two,if any,slaves
J) boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
K) cotton
L) trickster tale
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A) nearly captured a fort in Charleston,South Carolina.
B) led to a Supreme Court decision freeing the slaves.
C) inspired the gag rule.
D) took place off the coast of Virginia.
E) helped establish the Republic of Haiti.
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A) rose about 80 percent,which made it harder for southern whites to enter the slaveholding class.
B) rose less than 10 percent,which kept the size of the planter class about the same.
C) declined about 15 percent as the supply of slaves in the internal slave trade increased.
D) became so inexpensive that the slaveholding class grew to include nearly two-thirds of southern whites.
E) declined because labor-intensive agricultural work became less popular in the South.
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A) He improved slave housing and medical care.
B) He executed slaves who performed poorly.
C) He refused to allow slaves to learn about Christianity.
D) He taught his slaves to read and write.
E) He pushed for an end to slavery
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A) many newly freed slaves moved to West Africa,where they became reenslaved later.
B) of the violence it spawned in the West Indies during the 1840s.
C) many of those freed had moved to the United States,where they could obtain only menial jobs.
D) the freed slaves grew less sugarcane,which hurt the economy of the Caribbean.
E) the freed slaves could not take care of themselves and many begged their ex-masters to support them.
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A) system to help slaves escape to the North
B) slave trade within the United States
C) poor work and breakage of tools
D) slavery
E) managed slaves in the field
F) community of freed Virginian slaves
G) treating slaves in a fatherly manner
H) working in the fields side-by-side
I) had one or two,if any,slaves
J) boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
K) cotton
L) trickster tale
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A) He wanted to do lectures in Europe.
B) He had family there.
C) He wanted to speak to Queen Victoria about his bondage.
D) He feared being recaptured.
E) He hoped to locate his wife,an ex-slave,too.
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A) most often were domestic servants.
B) was a term coined by southerners to describe northern factory workers.
C) had less autonomy than plantation slaves because there were more authorities to watch them.
D) could work on their own and always kept the majority of their earnings.
E) increasingly replaced skilled white laborers as the Civil War approached.
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A) generally worked the land using family labor.
B) were all directly involved in the market economy from the start of the nineteenth century.
C) owned a substantial number of slaves.
D) were highly self-sufficient but still bought most of their supplies from stores.
E) were fortunate that their land was far better for farming than that owned by planters.
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A) 500
B) 1,000
C) 2,000
D) 5,000
E) 10,000
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A) southern politician who spoke against the slavocracy
B) led a "successful" slave rebellion in Virginia
C) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Cuba
D) favored returning the slaves of the Amistad to Africa
E) escaped slave who led the abolitionist movement
F) slave executed for conspiracy
G) defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society
H) outspoken proslavery politician
I) part of an organization helping slaves escape to the North
J) slave executed for killing her master
K) southern editor
L) Twelve Years a Slave
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A) unions.
B) communal living.
C) a code of honor.
D) competition.
E) social mobility.
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