Spring 2024 – Black Radicalism (XCOR-3010-02) Week 2 & Week 3

Reading review 2: please answer the following questions in a separate word document. Your answers must be in your own words. Any quotations taken from the source must be cited in parentheses. The purpose of the reading review is not to have every question answered correctly — this is a learning exercise. The purpose is to demonstrate that (1) you have completed the reading assignment, (2) you have thought about the assignment critically, and (3) you have answered the questions to the best of your ability.

Readings for this assignment:

Week 2

Please write 3 things that you learned from the Resisting Enslavement website.

What is the significance of women’s reproductive resistance?

Please explain the significance of the conspiracy of 1710 (in Virginia). Why is it important in the history of marronage? 

Please explain the significance of the language, “lurking in obscure places.”

What was the role that white Americans planned to give to Native Americans, where marronage was concerned?

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Reading review 3: please answer the following questions in a separate word document. Your answers must be in your own words. Any quotations taken from the source must be cited in parentheses. The purpose of the reading review is not to have every question answered correctly — this is a learning exercise. The purpose is to demonstrate that (1) you have completed the reading assignment, (2) you have thought about the assignment critically, and (3) you have answered the questions to the best of your ability.
Readings for this assignment:
Week 3
According to chapter 2 of Slavery’s Exiles, what are the reasons why most African-born runaways did not hide in urban areas? 

According to chapter 2 of Slavery’s Exiles, why did African-born maroons run away in groups? 

What is the significance of African-born enslaved people escaping via the ocean? 

What is the difference between a truant, a runaway, and a maroon?

What does the history of borderland maroons teach us about enslaved people’s family relationships?

Please explain why most borderland maroons were men and not women. 

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