Classwork & HW! Chapters 3 & 4 Questions

Chapter III To do in class

Relates several anecdotes that tell readers more about plantation life and the thinking of slaves.

QUESTIONS

• How did Colonel Lloyd keep the slave boys from taking his fruit?
  
• Why was it particularly difficult to be the slaves in charge of Colonel Lloyd's horses?
  
• What is ironic about Colonel Lloyd's treatment of his horses compared to the treatment of his slaves? (English) *
  
• What happened to the slave who told Colonel Lloyd the truth about his master?
  
• What is a maxim? (English)

QUOTES
Slave maxim: "a still tongue makes a wise head" (p. 36). (English)

ACTIVITIES
Add to your diagram of Colonel Lloyd's plantation holdings. (History/Anthropology)
Discuss the prejudice that existed among slaves from different plantations. Examine the irony of this prejudice. (English)

Chapter IV HW-Due Friday

Tells readers more about overseers and relates incidents of slave murders.

QUESTIONS

• Why is Mr. Austin Gore a "first-rate overseer"? What is the irony of this description of him? What is ironic about his name? (English)
  
• What reason does Mr. Gore give for killing Demby the slave?
  
• What other examples does Frederick give of his statement "that killing a slave, or any colored person, . . . is not treated as a crime, either by the courts or the community" (p. 41)? (History)*

QUOTES
Maxim laid down by slaveholders: "It is better that a dozen slaves suffer under the lash, than that the overseer should be convicted, in the presence of the slaves, of having been at fault" (p. 38).

"To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished" (pp. 38-39). [Another important point that continues throughout the narrative.] (History)

"He dealt sparingly with his words, and bountifully with his whip, never using the former where the latter would answer as well" (p. 39).