Problem
A. How do the speakers in the documentary describe Jefferson's relationship with slavery?
B. Who was Richard Allen? What were his goals?
C. What was happening in Philadelphia in 1793?
D. Why did some African Americans believe that they would be treated better by white Americans after the Yellow Fever of 1793?
E. Because of the cotton gin, where did plantations expand toward? Why?
F. How much bigger did the Louisiana Purchase make the US?
G. How did Bethel, Richard Allen's church, help the free Black community in Philadelphia?
H. Why did a few free Black Americans move to Sierra Leone in western Africa?
I. The Black men at Bethel church voted against resettlement unanimously, stating "We will never separate ourselves from the slave population of this country...They are our brethren by the ties of...suffering and wrong." What do you think this means?
J. What stray observations did you note throughout the documentary? What questions do you have?
YouTube Video: "Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery - Part 3".