Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution

slave auction

The ________ was one of the most barbaric practices of the slavery system.

William Sewall

________ considered the emancipation of the British West Indies a success despite the decline of sugar production in Jamaica.

Douglass

________ knows what freedom means to a slave.

physical attributes

Marks or ________ were inspected depending on what they need.

White southerners

________ believed that slavery was accepted by God in the Bible and they had their own interpretation of it.

Barrow

________ believes that slaves have greater obligations to their owners than free laborers do to their employees.

Slaveowners

________ should pay attention to the details of slaves; lives, and take care of some parts.

Joseph Taper

________- a successful fugitive, a slave in Frederick Country, who, in 1837 ran away to Pennsylvania with his children and wife.

species of property

The demand for all ________ is great, constant, and increasing.

Slavery

________ became a hot topic in the United States.

Douglass

________ so strongly linked education with freedom because slaves should write their own passes and not control by other people.

Douglass

________ was an American slave in the nineteenth century.

1833

The British abolished slavery

1848

France abolished slavery

US, Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico

countries that still use slaves

Joseph Taper

a successful fugitive, a slave in Frederick Country, who, in 1837 ran away to Pennsylvania with his children and wife

1840

he wrote a letter to a white acquaintance in Virginia recounting some of his experiences