The assignment is 1500 words: that is about six pages of double spaced, 12 point font.

Here is a list of several questions you can choose from.

1.How did slaves attempt to fight against their enslavement?

2.What sort of work did slaves do in the Maritimes?

3.What do we know about the experience of slavery for Black women?

4.What do we know about the experience of slavery for Black children?

5.What do we know about the experience of slavery for Black men?

6.How were slaves like other property? How were they not like other property?

7.How did people who did not own slaves react to slavery?

8.What does the evidence of slavery tell us about the broader Maritime economy between 1750 and 1850?

9.How were people enslaved and re-enslaved either in the Maritimes or before being brought to the Maritimes as slaves?

10.What sort of language did Black people in the Maritimes use to describe their conditions as slaves?

11.What does the language masters used to describe slavery and the people they kept as slaves tell us about race and racism?

12.What can we say about the ideology that supported slavery in the Maritimes?

13.What does the experience of slavery in the Maritimes tell us about ideas about the American Revolution and the USA?

14.What does the history of slavery in the Maritimes tell us about freedom?

15.What does the history of slavery in the Maritimes tell us something about the historical creation of a white identity?

(Should have the structure Intro, Body, Conclusion.)

No outside sources – please only use the book.