8. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 8: Race Relations in the Early Republic

**Quiz for Document 8.4: Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization (1817)**

Quiz for Document 8.4: Free Blacks in Philadelphia Oppose Colonization (1817)

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1. What did the free blacks of Philadelphia who authored this document say about why they did not have an interest in moving to Africa?

Leaving America would sever the bond between slaves and they would suffer from the loss of love and kinship.

They could not continue to thrive without assistance from white Philadelphians.

They hoped instead to form new African American towns in the Louisiana Territory.

They believed the plan was not intended to benefit them, but to harm them.

2. Why did the authors of this document oppose the idea of sending those who still lived as slaves to Africa as part of the process of emancipation?

They believed that freed slaves forced to migrate would not survive their sea journey.

They believed that newly freed southern slaves would have no interest in leaving the South.

They still had enslaved friends and family and were committed to maintaining those ties.

They objected to the fact that Christianity was not the dominant religion in African countries.

3. What was the goal of free blacks who opposed the American Colonization Society and its objectives?

To organize their own “back to Africa” movement

To work for the abolition of slavery in the United States

To create a protectorate for free blacks in the United States

To send white slave owners and their families back to Europe

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