1. What was the role of Africa in the evolution of modern humanity?
2. How did the Atlantic slave trade reflect the times during which existed?
3. Based on your reading of this chapter, do you believe the Chesapeake led them to enslave Africans to arrive at Jamestown lead to racial prejudice among the settlers?
4. How did the Enlightenment affect African Americans during the revolutionary era?
5. How did the domestic slave trade and the exploitation of black women by white males affect slave families?
6. How was black freedom in the North limited in the antebellum decades?
7. How did the Freedmen define their freedom? What did freedom mean to the ex-slaves? How did their priorities differ from those of African Americans who had been free before the Civil War?
8. How did the Union's purpose in the Civil War change between 1861 and 1865? What accounts for those changes?
9. How and why did southern and northern white people differ over slavery? On what did White people of both regions agree and disagree about race and slavery?
10. What was the historical significance of Henry Highland Garnet's Address to the Slaves? How did Garnet's attitude toward slavery differ from that of William Lloyd Garrison?
11. What did the program of the ACS mean for African Americans? How did they respond to this program?