Chapter 13

Quiz for Document 13-5: Harry Smith, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)

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Question 1

Harry Smith’s recollections about how the various residents of his plantation responded to the news of the Emancipation Proclamation confirm which of the following statements?A. Advancing Union troops spurred slave owners to inform their slaves that they were free.
B. Slaves greeted news of their emancipation with a mixture of joy, relief, and fear.
C. Confederate troops responded to the news of emancipation cooperatively and with resignation.
D. Despite the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves did not really believe they were free in 1863.

Question 2

What, according to Smith’s account, was the reaction of enslaved people on the Hays Plantation to the news of emancipation?A. Disbelief and uncertainty
B. Fear and panic
C. Joy and celebration
D. Violence and vengeance

Question 3

According to Smith, when speaking privately with the freed people of his plantation, “Old Massa Hays,” boasted that heA. had always favored emancipation.
B. planned to re-enslave them after the Yankees left.
C. supported land redistribution to freedmen.
D. would kill any Yankee he encountered.

Question 4

The nature of Smith’s accounts of violence, torture, and murder indicate the potential for postwarA. acts of vengeance by freed African Americans.
B. northern migration by African Americans.
C. racial violence against African Americans.
D. revolution in the reconstructed union.