3. Document Project 3: Tobacco and Slaves

Quiz for Document 3.7 Enslaved Blacks Working on a Tobacco Plantation, c. 1750

Quiz for Document 3.7: Enslaved Blacks Working on a Tobacco Plantation, c. 1750

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What message does the engraving convey about tobacco plantation owners?

Loneliness and isolation

Violence and fear

Hard work and toil

Prosperity and luxury

2. Why might artist Frederich W. Fairholt have presented a relatively positive description of slavery and tobacco plantations?

To better market tobacco from Virginia slave plantations

To encourage the abolition movement

To dissuade new settlers from coming to Virginia

To justify and defend the institution of slavery

3. Why would the artist depict the slaves clothed as they are?

To emphasize their difference from the white owners

To show how hot it was in Virginia and Maryland

To reveal the dirty and difficult nature of the work

To reveal their strength and work ethic in the fields

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