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LTEN 25 Midterm Quote Identification Questions WithComplete Solutions
"... I should have no Objection to a Repetition of the same Life
from its Beginning, only asking the Advantage Authors have in
a second Edition to correct some Faults of the first." Correct
Answer Benjamin Franklin, "The Autobiography: Part I"
"... under the Notion of my being a young acquaintance of his
that had got a naughty Girl with Child, whose Friends would
compel me to marry her, and therefore I could not appear or
come away publicly." Correct Answer Benjamin Franklin,
"The Autobiography: Part I"
"...let us not, as revolutionary firebrands, declare ourselves the
lawgivers of the Caribbean, nor let our glory consist in troubling
the peace of the neighboring islands." Correct Answer Jean-
Jacques Dessalines, "The Haitian Declaration of Independence"
"'No.' When you make men slaves, you deprive them of half
their virtue, you set them, in your own conduct, an example of
fraud, rapine, and cruelty, and compel them to live with you in a
state of war; and yet you complain that they are not honest or
faithful!" Correct Answer Olaudah Equiano, "An Interesting
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa,
The African, Written By Himself"
"'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
,Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train." Correct Answer
Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought From Africa to America"
"Affliction I wanted, and affliction I had, full measure (I
thought), pressed down and running over. Yet I see, when God
calls a person to anything, and through never so many
difficulties yet He is fully able to carry them through and make
them see, and say they have been gainers thereby." Correct
Answer Mary Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity and
Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson"
"Although practiced traditionally throughout the Indigenous
agricultural areas of North America, the Green Corn Dance
remains strongest among the Muskogee people. The elements of
the ritual dance are similar to those of the Valley of Mexico.
Although the dance takes various forms among different
communities, the core of it is the same, a commemoration of the
gift of corn by an ancestral corn woman. The peoples of the corn
retain great affinities under the crust of colonialism. This brief
overview of precolonial North America suggests the magnitude
of what was lost to all humanity and counteracts the settler-
colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter. These were
civilizations based on advanced agriculture and featuring
polities. It is essential to understand the migrations and
Indigenous peoples' relationships prior to invasion, North and
South, and how colonialism cut them off, but, as we will see, the
relations Correct Answer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "Follow the
Corn"
, "And kiss this paper for thy love's dear sake, / Who with salt
tears this last farewell did take" Correct Answer Anne
Bradstreet, ""Before the Birth of One of Her Children"
"And one can see here whether the Spaniards who in their search
for pearls act in this wise have obeyed the divine precepts of
love for God and man by putting these poor creatures in the way
of danger both temporal and of the soul, as well, because they
die outside the faith and without sacraments and all for their
own infinite greed." Correct Answer Bartolomé de la Casas,
"An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the West
Indies"
"And so some spetiall lands were granted at a place generall,
called Greens Harbor, where no allotments had been in former
divission, a plase very weell meadowed, and fitt to keep & rear
cattle, good store. But alass! this remedy proved worse then the
disease; for within a few years those that had thus gott footing
their rente them selves away, partly by force, and partly wearing
the rest with importunitie and pleas of necessitie, so as they must
either suffer them to goe, or live in continuall opposition and
contention. And this, I fear, will be the ruine of New-England, at
least of the churches of God there, & will provock the Lords
displeasure against them." Correct Answer William Bradford,
"Of Plymouth Plantation"
"Besides, what could they see but a hidious & desolate
wilderness, full of wild beasts & wild men? and what multituds
there might be of them they knew not." Correct Answer
William Bradford, "Of Plymouth Plantation"
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