Question

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

When did the events that Truth describes in "An Account of an Experience with Discrimination" occur?

before the Civil War

during the period of slavery

during the civil rights marches in the 1950s

immediately after the Civil War

Answer 1

The events that Truth describes in "An Account of an Experience with discrimination" occur immediately after the Civil War. This was the so called Reconstruction era. It was a stormy period since the nation was attempting to reconstruct South by transitioning 4 million newly freed blacks from slavery to a free-labor society.