Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 8

Document Links:

Document 8.1 Confession of Solomon (September 1800)

Document 8.2 ANDREW JACKSON, Runaway Slave Advertisement (1804)

Document 8.3 ROBERT SUTCLIFF, Travels in Some Parts of North America (1812)

Document 8.4 Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization (1817)

Document 8.5 RICHARD ALLEN, Excerpt from The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen (1833)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 8

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: What do these five documents reveal about how whites in American society perceived and treated African Americans and about how both free and enslaved blacks resisted white prejudice and worked to carve out a place for themselves in the early Republic?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 8.16

1. Which of the sources provide specific evidence about how most whites in America perceived and treated African Americans, both free and enslaved? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 8.1: Confession of Solomon
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.2: Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.3: Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.4: Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.5: Richard Allen, The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours
Correct: Document 8.2: Jackson’s ad provides information about the runaway’s clothing and activities and describes the treatment he will receive when he is found. Document 8.3: Sutcliff describes his perceptions of slaves and slavery and details the brutal treatment of slaves by whites in the United States. Document 8.4: The writers describe their objections to colonization, a plan proposed and largely supported by whites to remove African Americans from the United States. Document 8.5: Here Allen describes the treatment he and other black Methodists received from whites.
Incorrect: Document 8.1: Solomon describes his own perceptions of whites and the plans he and others made to rebel.

Question 8.17

2. Which of these documents provide specific evidence about how free African Americans worked to resist white prejudice and mistreatment? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 8.1: Confession of Solomon
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 8.2: Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 8.3: Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.4: Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.5: Richard Allen, The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours
Correct: Document 8.4: These writers are free blacks working to resist whites’ plan to colonize blacks in Africa. Document 8.5: Richard Allen describes black Methodists’ resistance to mistreatment by whites in an integrated church and their struggle to fight white opposition to the creation of a black Methodist church.
Incorrect: Document 8.1: Solomon was enslaved, not free. Document 8.2: Jackson’s ad seeks a runaway slave and does not provide evidence about free blacks’ resistance to prejudice or mistreatment. Document 8.3: Sutcliff describes the experiences of slaves, not free blacks.

Question 8.18

3. Which of the following documents provide specific evidence about how black slaves worked to resist their enslavement and their cruel treatment by whites? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.1: Confession of Solomon
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.2: Andrew Jackson, Runaway Slave Advertisement
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 8.3: Robert Sutcliff, Travels in Some Parts of North America
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 8.4: Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 8.5: Richard Allen, The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours
Correct: Document 8.1: Solomon describes the plans he and fellow slaves made to foment a rebellion against whites. Document 8.2: Jackson advertises for the return of one of his slaves who ran away in an effort to gain his freedom. Document 8.3: Sutcliff describes the ways one of the men convicted for Gabriel’s rebellion resisted whites’ conception of him by comparing himself to George Washington.
Incorrect: Document 8.4: This document focuses on free blacks, not slaves. Document 8.5: This document focuses on free blacks, not slaves.

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