What was Harriet Tubman's personal philosophy, as quoted in Chapter 9?
Explanation
This question tests the reader's knowledge of the famous quote from Harriet Tubman, a key figure of resistance highlighted in the chapter.
Other questions
According to Chapter 9, what was the approximate growth of the slave population in the United States between 1790 and 1860?
Chapter 9 mentions several major slave rebellions and conspiracies. Which of the following is NOT one of the rebellions cited at the beginning of the chapter?
What reason does Zinn offer for why Abraham Lincoln, rather than John Brown, is credited with freeing the slaves?
According to John Hope Franklin, as cited in Chapter 9, what was the estimated number of slaves illegally imported into the U.S. before the Civil War, despite the 1808 ban?
How did the ex-slave John Little explain the phenomenon of slaves singing and dancing despite their brutal treatment?
What was the average rate of whippings on the Barrow plantation in Louisiana between 1840-1842, according to the records analyzed in 'Time on the Cross'?
In Herbert Gutman's analysis of the Barrow plantation data, what percentage of cotton pickers engaged in one or more 'disorderly acts' in 1840-41?
What was the primary characteristic of Nat Turner's rebellion in 1831, as described in the chapter?
According to Eugene Genovese's study 'Roll, Jordan, Roll', what forms did slave resistance take, besides organized insurrection?
What was the main argument of David Walker's 'Appeal', published in 1829?
In his Independence Day address of 1852, what did Frederick Douglass say the Fourth of July was to the American slave?
According to the chapter, what was the primary purpose of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation when it was issued?
What was a significant cause of the 1863 draft riots in northern cities, as described in Chapter 9?
How many black soldiers served in the Union army and navy during the Civil War, and how many were killed?
What was General Sherman's 'Special Field Order No. 15' intended to do?
What was the eventual fate of the land granted to 40,000 freedmen under Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15?
The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to guarantee citizenship and equal protection. However, what was the primary finding of the Supreme Court in the 1883 Civil Rights cases?
What legal doctrine was established by the Supreme Court's 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
What was the political outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876, as described in the chapter?
In his book 'Black Reconstruction', W. E. B. Du Bois described the era after 1876 as the rise of a new capitalism and what else?
According to Booker T. Washington's philosophy, as presented in the chapter, what should southern Negroes do?
What was the response of black leader John Hope to Booker T. Washington's speech at the Cotton Exposition?
In the decades following the Civil War, what did the term 'Black Codes' refer to?
Who was Henry MacNeal Turner, as described in Chapter 9?
What was the financial arrangement that Thomas Fortune described as 'a system of fraud' for southern black farmers in the 1880s?
How many years did Abream Scriven's mother and father go without seeing him after he was sold away?
According to the chapter, what was the primary reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups after the Civil War?
How did a school for black children in Louisville, Kentucky, answer the question of what enabled white people to control the country?
Of the 32 enslaved people who died on a specific plantation between 1850 and 1855, how many reached the age of sixty?
What was the significance of the Brunswick canal story involving Irish and black workers, as told by Fanny Kemble?
What was the main finding of Herbert Gutman's study 'The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom'?
How many states in the North still did not allow blacks to vote when the Civil War ended?
In J. W. Loguen's 1850 speech in Syracuse, what was his stated response to the Fugitive Slave Act?
What was the significance of the 1811 slave revolt near New Orleans?
Why did the Confederate government sign a 'Negro Soldier Law' in March 1865?
What was the significance of the 1930s Federal Writers' Project interviews with ex-slaves, according to George Rawick?
In the song quoted by Lawrence Levine, what items were given to the slaves while the masters kept the better part?
What was the unequal pay for black and white privates in the Union army for most of the Civil War?
According to C. Vann Woodward, the Compromise of 1877 assured the dominant whites in the South political autonomy and what else?
In the first paragraph of Chapter 9, Zinn argues that ending slavery required either a full-scale slave rebellion or what other event?
What was the average wage for Negro farm laborers in the South in 1883, according to the testimony of Thomas Fortune?
What was the title of the first novel published by a black woman, written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in the 1890s?
How many black people migrated from Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi to Kansas to escape violence and poverty, according to the chapter?
What does Zinn identify as the 'ingenious device' for controlling slaves that involved paying poor whites?
By 1900, after years of struggle and the passage of multiple Civil Rights amendments, how many black congressmen remained in office?
What was the initial reaction of William Lloyd Garrison to Lincoln's policies during the Civil War?
How much was the property qualification for black men to vote in New York, a rule that did not apply to whites?
In the 1880s, approximately how many lynchings of Negroes were occurring each year?
What was the core message of the slave song 'Many Thousand Go'?