Question

13. How much would an adult male slave cost at auction?__________An adult woman? _________ A child?_______

14. What percentage of African Americans in America were slaves before the Civil War?

15. Frederick Douglass had a skill that 80% of all slaves didn’t have. What skill was that?

16. What was the name of the slave who escaped to the North, yet kept returning to the South to bring other slaves to freedom? _______________________________
What was her nickname? _______________

17. The Fugitive Slave Law said that any African American can be seized and sent to the South. Did those people who were seized have a right to a trial?


18. What was the name of the man who tried to capture the arsenal at Harpers Ferry?

19. Who was elected President in 1860? _____________________ What did the South fear he wanted to do when he became president?_________________________

Answer 1

There are 23 slaves listed here, fetching an average price of $721 each (some are sold together); the average for an adult male slave, however, is closer to $1,000; adult women just $624, and a woman in her 40s is worth more or less the same as a little girl aged 4.