10. Document Project 10: Lives in Slavery

Quiz for Document 10.8 Friedrich Shulz, The Slave Market

Quiz for Document 10.8: Friedrich Shulz, The Slave Market

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. In the mid-nineteenth century, why might a European artist like Friedrich Shulz have chosen American slave markets as a subject for a painting?

There was little of interest in Europe to paint, so artists looked for outside inspiration.

Europe had banned slavery, so its continuation in America was of interest.

To select an unpleasant, yet fascinating, topic so as to sell more paintings

To reminisce about a more pleasant time in world history

2. Why might Shulz have depicted all the slaves as women and all of the slave traders as men?

To expose the underlying power struggle of men and women

To explain that women were the most valuable slaves

To incorporate brighter colors into the painting

To create a false impression that all slaves were women

3. Why are the white men in the painting speaking to the slave women?

They are making small talk to get to know the women.

They are determining the women’s ability to read and write.

They are inspecting the women for purchase.

They are soliciting the women for mistresses.

4. What reality awaited many of the slave women with children like those pictured in this image?

Separation from their children

Family reunions every year

Concentrated settlements for mothers and children

Sterilization and an end to childbearing

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