Issue Number:33

Date: 03/24/1934

p. 02 and 04, c. 01 and 02/03

Do You Know This One? (Based on Negro history prior to 1863)

Thomas J. Sellers

1. What was the "The Declaration of Sentiments"?
2. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
3. What woman of Canterbury, Connecticut, was imprisoned because she exerted interest in the education of the Negro?
4. Who was called "The Joan of Arc" of the anti-slavery movement?
5. Who was the first free-born Negro called to service to speak against slavery?
6. What great man of our race helped to convince the slave holder and the abolitionist that if the Negro were freed and allowed a chance, he could do great things?
7. The charter of what college started with the following words: "God hath made of one blood, all nations that dwell upon the face of the earth?"
8. How many free Negroes in Virginia were paying poll taxes in 1814?
9. What famous Southerner secured the enactment of the law providing for the patenting of inventions of slaves?
10. What led to the establishment of Oberlin College?

Answers 1. "The Declaration of Sentiments" was a document which presented the principles upon which the right of man to freedom was based, and issued a call to all men in the middle nineteenth century, to promote emancipation. William Lloyd Garrison wrote them and many abolitionists signed them.
2. He was a great reformer and one of the greatest upholders of the theory that slavery was a moral and social evil, a sin. He was forced to leave Baltimore, by members of his race, because of his fiery utterances. He said, "I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population. I will be as uncompromising as justice on the subject-I am not wrong; I will not equivocate, I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard"!
3. Prudence Crandall was imprisoned because she admitted Negro girls to her academy.
4. Abby Kelly Foster. She was a great abolitionist and a very energetic anti slavery lecturer.
5. Charles Redmond was the first free-born Negro called to service to speak against slavery. Until the rise of Frederick Douglass, he was reputed to be the ablest representative of the Negro race.
6. Frederick Douglass was the living example of what the slave was and what he might become. He was a fugitive from slavery in Maryland.
7. The Charter of Berea College, in Kentucky, established by John G. Fee, abolitionist.
8. There were 5,547.
9. Jefferson Davis, in the year 1859. The law was: "That in case the original inventor or discoverer of the art, machine or improvement for which a patent is solicited, is a slave, he may receive a patent after complying with the formal requirements and presenting the oath of his master".
10. In Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati the ardent discussion of slavery pro and con led to an open dispute resulting in the division of the students. As it was largely attended by Southern students, a separation was necessary. When the trustees tried to prevent further discussion, four-fifths of the students withdrew and under Asa Minor and John Morgan, retired to the Western Reserve where they established Oberlin College.