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Question #3
Douglass described the children's clothes as:
"The children unable to work in the field had neither shoes, stockings, jackets, nor trousers, given to them; their clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts per year."
What does "nor trousers" mean in this context?
Question #4
In the same quote as the last question (below), what is another word for "course"?
"The children unable to work in the field had neither shoes, stockings, jackets, nor trousers, given to them; their clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts per year."
Question #5
When would the slaves wake up and start working?
Question #6
Frederick Douglass says that Mr. Hopkins "was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty."
What does "characterized" mean in this context?
Question #7
Even though Frederick Douglass says that Mr. Hopkins "was characterized by no extraordinary demonstrations of cruelty", does he whip slaves?
Question #8
What was the name of a slave trader?
(Be careful, spelling matters!)
Question #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?
Question #10
Looking back, what does Frederick Douglass recognize in the slave songs?
Question #11
Take a second to think about this sentence:
"The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek."
What is Frederick Douglass saying?