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FD Appendix Study Guide, due 4-8-11

1. Why do you think Douglass added the appendix?
2. What does he mean by “slaveholding religion”?
3. Why does Douglass contend that the church turns the other cheek on the treatment of slaves?
4. How does he compare the slaveholding Christians to the Pharisees and ancient scribes?
5. How does he criticize the church of the north?

QUOTES - You do not have to explain each quote. Instead, use these quotes to summarize, in one paragraph, FD's feelings on religion and slavery.

“Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognized the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land” (p. 120).

“The slave prison and the church stand near each other. The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time” (p. 121).

“The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity” (p. 121).

“They would be shocked at the proposition of fellowshipping a sheep-stealer; and at the same time they hug to their communion a man-stealer” (p. 123).

“They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of law, judgment, mercy, and faith” (p. 123).

“They are they who are represented as professing to love God whom they have not seen, whilst they hate their brother whom they have seen” (p. 123).

“They love the heathen on the other side of the globe. They can pray for him, pay money to have the Bible put into his hand, and missionaries to instruct him; while they despise and totally neglect the heathen at their own doors” (p. 123).

FD Ch 11 Study Guide, Due 4-8-11

30 Points

1. For what two reasons does Frederick tell us that he cannot relate the means of his escape?
2. Why does he not approve of the underground railroad?
3. What does Master Hugh do to attempt to encourage Frederick to continue to earn money? What effect does his
4. encouragement have?
5. What does Frederick ask of Master Thomas? What is he told?
6. What arrangement does Frederick eventually make with Master Hugh? Why is this arrangement to Master Hugh’s
7. advantage? Why does Frederick agree to it?
8. What does Master Hugh do when he discovers that Frederick has left town to find work?
9. Why does Frederick decide to work hard despite the dissolution of their agreement?
10. When and to where does Frederick run away?
11. Why does he feel so lonely?
12. Who helps Frederick in New York? How?
13. How is it possible for Frederick and Anna to marry? Why is their marriage such an important event?
14. Why does Mr. Ruggles suggest that Frederick not stay in New York and go to New Bedford, Massachusetts?
15. Who helps Frederick and Anna in New Bedford? What does he do for them?
16. Why did Frederick change his name so many times? Who chooses Douglass? Why?
17. What had Douglass believed about life in the North? Was he correct? What does he find about life in the North?
18. How were the wharves in New Bedford different from those in Baltimore?
19. What conditions did he find for “colored people”?
20. What does Douglass discover about prejudice against color in New Bedford?
21. How does Douglass make a living when he can’t find work as a caulker?
22. How does Douglass become known to the “anti-slavery world”?
23. Why is Douglass at first reluctant to speak out against slavery?

Drafting a Research Paper

Here is the info on how to organize.  You need to scroll down about halfway to get to it.

http://www.roanestate.edu/owl/Research.html

Here is a great link about writing research papers in general.

http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/PlanResearchPaper.html

Here is a sample research paper.

http://www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/hacker-daly-mla.pdf

Chapter 10 Study Guide, Due April 5

Chapter 10 - 30 pts (No quotes)

1. Why does Mr. Covey whip Frederick?
2. Why are the slaves so fearful of Mr. Covey? Why does their work go on in his absence?
3. Why is it “never safe to stop a single minute” (p. 73)?
4. What does Frederick mean by “Mr. Covey’s forte consisted in his power to deceive” (p. 74)?
5. Why does Mr. Covey buy a slave to use as a breeder?
6. Why does he hire Mr. Samuel Harrison, a married man? What irony does Frederick find in this?
7. How does Mr. Covey succeed in breaking Frederick?
8. How does Frederick succeed in again becoming a man?
9. Why does Frederick go to Master Thomas Auld?
10. Why does he return to Covey? Who convinces him to do so? What does Sandy Jenkins suggest that Frederick do?
11. How does Frederick win the fight with Mr. Covey?
12. Why does Frederick contend that Mr. Covey does not turn him in?
13. What would have happened to Frederick had Mr. Covey turned him in?
14. Why is Frederick’s battle with Mr. Covey “the turning-point in my career as a slave” (p. 82)?
15. How are the holidays used to “disgust the slave with freedom” (p. 85)?
16. Where does Frederick go after leaving Mr. Covey’s on January 1, 1834?
17. Who is his new master and how does he treat Frederick?
18. Why does Frederick include the anecdotes about the two religious slave holders Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Weeden? What point is he attempting to make?
19. Why and where does Frederick begin a Sabbath school? Why is it essential that the slaves tell no one about it?
20. What would the slaveholders like the slaves to do on the sabbath? Why is this ironic?
21. Why does Frederick decide to include the slaves in his Sabbath school in his plans to obtain his freedom? Why is this dangerous?
22. Frederick makes the point that many slaves would “rather bear those ills we had, than fly to others, that we knew not of ”(p. 93). How does this help explain why so few slaves escaped?
23. How do the slaves plan to run away?
24. What is the purpose of the “protections” written by Frederick?
25. What happens to their plan, and how do the “protections” nearly cause their deaths?
26. What happens to each of the slaves who attempted to run away?
27. When Frederick returns to Baltimore, what does he do?
28. Frederick again decides to fight when he is attacked. What happens to him? What does Master Hugh attempt to do for Frederick?
29. What must Frederick do with the wages he earns each week as a caulker? Why?

Chapter 9 Study Guide, Due April 4

Chapter 9 - 20 pts

1. Why does Frederick now know the date?
2. Who is Frederick’s newest Master?
3. What rule of slaveholding does Master Thomas Auld violate?
4. How did the slaves get food?
5. Why does Frederick say that “adopted slaveholders are the worst”?
6. What, according to Frederick, happens to Master Thomas Auld after his conversion to Christianity? Why?
7. Why does Frederick find irony in the fact that the slaves sabbath school is discontinued? Why does Frederick let Master Thomas’s horse run away?
8. Again, Frederick compares the treatment of slaves to the treatment of horses. How?
9. How does Master Thomas propose to ‘break’ Frederick?
10. Why is the use of the verb ‘to break’ ironic?
11. Why was Mr. Covey’s reputation for breaking slaves of great value to him?
12. Why does Frederick suggest that Mr. Covey’s “pious soul” (p.70) adds to “his reputation as a ‘nigger-breaker’” (p. 70)?

QUOTES

“After his conversion, he found religious sanction and support for his slaveholding cruelty” (p. 67).

“He would quote this passage of Scripture—’He that knoweth his master’s will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes’” (p. 68).

“He resolved to put me out, as he said, to be broken” (p. 69).

“Master Thomas was one of the many pious slaveholders who hold slaves for the very charitable purpose of taking care of them” (p. 69). *

Chapter 8 Study Guide, Due April 1

Chapter 8, 20 pts

1. Why was Frederick forced to return to the plantation after the death of his master?
2. How was the value of the master’s property determined? How were the slaves valued?
3. Why was the division of property between Mistress Lucretia and Master Andrew so horrifying to the slaves?
4. What happened to Frederick’s grandmother after the deaths of Lucretia and Andrew?
5. How does this anecdote help explain the value of slaves?
6. How are slaves valued when compared to livestock?
7. Who owns Frederick by the end of chapter eight?
8. Why is Frederick forced to leave Baltimore?

QUOTES

“At this moment [valuation of the property], I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder” (p. 60).

“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water. Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl. All is gloom. The grave is at the door” (p. 62).