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Quiz for Document 10–3: A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why did the slave quote Jefferson’s own Notes on the State of Virginia in his letter to the president requesting the abolition of slavery?

To demonstrate that Jefferson knew that African Americans were equal in their capabilities.

To remind the president that he had condemned slavery in the colonial period, only to sanction it now.

To assure Jefferson that fears of black revenge on white Americans were unfounded and unwarranted.

To point out to Jefferson that he himself had considered slavery an abomination that merited severe punishment for its agents and defenders.

2. What source did the slave use to argue that black people were as human as white people?

The Bible

The words of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

The Bill of Rights

3. Which of the following was a reason the slave called the masters “inhuman tyrants”?

They doled out very harsh punishments.

They did not give the slaves enough to eat.

They sat around and got drunk while the slaves did all their hard work.

They separated slave families rather than allowing them to stay together.

4. How did the slave think slaves should be treated?

They should be allowed to return to Africa if they wanted.

They should be freed if they had worked for ten years or more.

They should be given small parcels of land to work for themselves.

They should be freed and paid yearly wages for all the work they had done while slaves.