Workforce Diversity

Summer 2002

Study Guide

Chapter 5. No More Pick O’ Corn: Slavery and Its Discontents

Use the reverse side for chapter summary notes.

David Walker. Who was he? What were his beliefs?

What were the conditions and treatment of blacks in the North? In the South?

How were the civilized and savage stereotypes portrayed in this chapter?

What were Benjamin Franklin’s beliefs about racial purity?

Was Sambo real? What was the Sambo role, who played it and why?

What were the beliefs of slave holders and white southerners.

What was slave life like in the cities?

Describe slave behaviors during the Civil War.

What was the white and black understanding of the Civil War?

Who was Frederick Douglass? What was his life about, his beliefs?

Martin Delaney?

Booker T. Washington?

Describe the postwar South.