Text of Book
Chapter 2, page 1
Chapter 2, page 2
Chapter 2, page 3
Chapter 2, page 4
Chapter 2, page 5
Chapter 2, page 6
Chapter 2, page 7
Chapter 2, page 8
Chapter 2, page 9
Questions
| 1) | What is the second chapter mainly about? |
| 2) | What were the names of the slaves that got to see Baltimore on the ship named Sally Lloyd? |
| 5) | When would the slaves wake up and start working? |
| 6) | Frederick Douglass says that Mr. Hopkins "was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty."
What does "characterized" mean in this context? |
| 7) | Even though Frederick Douglass says that Mr. Hopkins "was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty", does he whip slaves? |
| 8) | What was the name of a slave trader? (Be careful, spelling matters!) |
| 9) | Frederick Douglass felt slaves songs revealed two things when he was a slave.
What two things did the slave songs reveal to him as a slave? |
| 10) | Looking back, what does Frederick Douglass recognize in the slave songs? |
| 12) | Looking back Frederick Douglass writes that "To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery."
What does "dehumanizing" mean? |
| 13) | In the same quote, what does Frederick Douglass mean by "my first glimmering conception"?
"To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery." |
| 14) | When does Frederick Douglass say that slaves sing? |
| 15) | What else would you like to learn about Frederick Douglas? |