4. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 4: A New Commercial Culture in Boston

**Quiz for Document 4.5: Advertisement for Runaway Slave (1744)**

Quiz for Document 4.5: Advertisement for Runaway Slave (1744)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Why does this advertisement for a runaway slave mention the law?

To emphasize to abolitionists that slavery is legal in Boston

To make fun of the institution of slavery and slave owners

To threaten the runaway slave with the death penalty

To remind anyone harboring her that they were required to return her

2. This advertisement for a runaway slave supports which of the following conclusions?

Wealthy Bostonians who owned slaves felt shame and guilt about doing so.

Wealthy Bostonians who owned slaves viewed them as just like other forms of property.

Wealthy Bostonians who owned slaves did not try hard to find runaways.

Wealthy Bostonians who owned slaves needed them to perform agricultural work.

3. What can we glean about slaves in northern seaports like Boston from the description set forth in this advertisement?

Slaves in those cities were generally born there and not newly imported.

Slaves in the urban North were generally newly arrived in North America.

The typical Boston slave was poorly nourished and unhealthy.

Some of Boston’s slaves were born in the Caribbean but were largely acculturated.

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