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Practice Quiz on the Preface and the “Letter from Wendell Holmes” in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
1In the Preface to Frederick Douglass’s Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave , written in 1865, William Lloyd Garrison recalls having been present at an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in August 1841. It was there that he heard a speech by Frederick Douglass, who had recently escaped from a southern prison house of bondage. The author explains that Douglass’s speech enlightened his mind on the subject of slavery. After the speech given by Douglass, the author says he addressed the audience, asking them whether they would ever allow Douglass to be carried back into slavery as was required by law, saying that the audience responded unanimously that they would not and that they would protect him. (false, written in 1845)
2William Lloyd Garrison tells us that after escaping slavery Douglass went on to become a well-known speaker for Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party’s cause. The author points out that Douglass achieved notoriety as an eloquent speaker, having risen above the terrible obstacles laid before him by his condition as a former slave, and obtained a noteworthy education. This has allowed him to write his narrative on his own, rather than employing someone else to do it for him. The author further adds that Douglass’s experience is the experience of a great many others like him, and that Douglass’ testimony stands as an accusation that slaveholders professing to being Christians is a gross imposture. (false, the abolitionist cause)
3Similiarly, Wendell Phillips writes that Douglass’s Narrative is valuable in that it provides an eyewitness account of what it is like to live in slavery. He compares the narrative with the American Bill of Right, for Douglass composed his narrative with the threat of death hanging over him. Phillips declares that New England should cut itself loose from the blood-stained union and be a refuge for the oppressed. (false, the Declaration of Independence of 1776)
- Thomas Auld, who, from 1826 to 1846, was Frederick Douglass’s legal owner, inherited the eight-year-old boy from his father-in-law, a slave
master named Aaron Anthony, who may also have been Frederick’s father by one of his slaves, Harriet Bailey. Young Frederick Bailey (he took the name Douglass years later, from a swashbuckling character in a poem by Sir Walter Scott) was traded back and forth between the rural household of Thomas and Lucretia Anthony Auld and that of Thomas’s brother Hugh, in Baltimore, where Hugh’s wife, Sophia, instructed the precocious boy in the rudiments of reading. Although Maryland was among the few slave states where teaching literacy to slaves was not illegal, Hugh put a stop to it on the grounds (in Douglass’s recollection) that “if you give a nigger an inch, he will take a mile.” By observing the white children at their lessons, the boy continued his education surreptitiously. (true)
5 With a reputation for recalitrance as well as high intelligence, Douglass was treated sometimes as a family servant, sometimes as an adoptive son, and sometimes as a piece of equipment to be rented out for cash. In an incident about which he often spoke and wrote in later life, he fought off a brutal slave breaker named Covey, to whom Thomas Auld had sent him and who tried to beat him for his perceived insolence before retreating in terror from the young man’s fury. In 1836, barely eighteen, Douglass joined a plot to flee to freedom in the North, but when his coconspirators lost their nerve, the plan fell apart. He managed to escape to the Far West two years later. (false, the New York City)
6 Frederick Douglass was introduced to the abolitionist movement in 1841 when William Coffin invited him to share his story in a convention organized by the Massachusetts Antislavery Society (MAS). William Garrison, impressed by his oratory, hired him as an agent of the MAS. This was a turning point in Douglass’ life and the beginning of his abolitionist activities. Antislavery sentiment was confined to a small minority in the north; however, starting in the 1850’s, legal developments such as the Fugitive Slave Act forced Northerners to face the moral issue of slavery. (true)
7 The first call for the abolition of slavery in America came in 1688 from the Quakers in Pennsylvania. The Quakers formed the first American Abolition Society in 1775. In 1787 Benjamin Franklin became president of the Society. In 1790, two months before his death, Franklin petitioned Congress, for the first time, to eliminate slavery. The petition was immediately rejected by pro-slavery congressmen, mostly from the south. A committee assigned to its study claimed that the 1787 Constitution refrained Congress from abolishing slavery or its trade. In 1807 President
Americans to fight for the Union, his two sons being among the first to enroll. He also advocated for equal treatment, pay, protection and rewards and promotions. (false, the Civil War)
12 The Emmancipation Proclamation, which freed to the slaves, was issued on Jan 1, 1863. Slavery was officially abolished in December, 1865, with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The ammendment states that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the US, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction, and that Congress has the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (true)
