Chapter 135. Reflections on Black and Free: On the Middle Ground, Chapter 13

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Correct. The answer is c. The author’s main point about free African Americans in the antebellum South is that, although white Southerners subjected free blacks to discriminatory laws that restricted their political and economic rights in the 1820s and 1830s, free African Americans made the most of their freedom and sometimes achieved considerable success.

Incorrect. The answer is c. The author’s main point about free African Americans in the antebellum South is that, although white Southerners subjected free blacks to discriminatory laws that restricted their political and economic rights in the 1820s and 1830s, free African Americans made the most of their freedom and sometimes achieved considerable success.

Correct. The answer is a. As evidence that white Southerners sought to limit the growing population of free blacks in the 1820s and 1830s, the author cites the passage of new laws that forbade slave owners from emancipating their slaves.

Incorrect. The answer is a. As evidence that white Southerners sought to limit the growing population of free blacks in the 1820s and 1830s, the author cites the passage of new laws that forbade slave owners from emancipating their slaves.

Correct. The answer is b. The author cites the example of free black man William Ellison, who built a prosperous business and purchased a plantation and numerous slaves, as evidence to support his assertion that some free blacks achieved elite status despite the existence of restrictive laws.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author cites the example of free black man William Ellison, who built a prosperous business and purchased a plantation and numerous slaves, as evidence to support his assertion that some free blacks achieved elite status despite the existence of restrictive laws.

Correct. The answer is d. The author cites the cotton boom, which increased Southerners’ need for slave labor, as the source of their growing hostility toward free blacks in the 1820s and 1830s.He argues that in a period during which white Southerners were looking to increase their slave labor forces, the growing population of free blacks seemed to “set a bad example for slaves, subverting the racial subordination that was the essence of slavery.”

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author cites the cotton boom, which increased Southerners’ need for slave labor, as the source of their growing hostility toward free blacks in the 1820s and 1830s. He argues that in a period during which white Southerners were looking to increase their slave labor forces, the growing population of free blacks seemed to “set a bad example for slaves, subverting the racial subordination that was the essence of slavery.”

Correct. The answer is a. According to the author, light-skinned blacks who had valuable skills that they could offer to whites were the most likely to achieve elite status in the restrictive atmosphere of the antebellum South.

Incorrect. The answer is a. According to the author, light-skinned blacks who had valuable skills that they could offer to whites were the most likely to achieve elite status in the restrictive atmosphere of the antebellum South.

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