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First go to youtube and watch / Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery (3/4) - Brotherly Love (1791-1831)

Finish watching the first 48 minutes of the documentary film Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery and address at least three of the following questions:  

1. What was the most conspicuous contradiction to freedom in America at the beginning of the 19th century?

2. What do you see as the significance of the following statement: "Though not untouched by ideas of liberty, their condition was not changed by it?"

3. How does the film address the complexity of Thomas Jefferson’s legacy?

4. Who was Richard Allen? Why is he a pioneering figure in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal church? How did he become free? What religious and political movements inspired him?

5. What did you take away from the film’s discussion of the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia?

6. What did you take away from the film's discussion of “slave marriages”? What invention in 1794 threatened the slave family? Why was this invention seen as an instrument of dread for enslaved African Americans? Think about experiences Charles Ball.

7. Why do you think Gabriel’s rebellion in Virginia in 1800 was significant?

8. What was the Haitian Revolution about? What meaning do you think it had for African Americans, slave and free? In what ways did the Haitian Revolution overlap with the history of the United States?

9. When and why was the trans-Atlantic slave trade abolished in the United States? How was its abolition received by African Americans? What about slavery, in what way was it undergoing change at the beginning of the 19th century?