Topics for Further Study
- Write your own account of Kunta and Bell's experiences on the Waller plantation after their daughter Kizzy is sold. What do you think happened to these characters during this time?
- Investigate your family lineage. How far back can you trace it? What details do you know about your family's history and heritage?
- Study the Haitian slave revolt and Kunta's hero, Toussaint Louverture. How did the lives of enslaved people in Haiti differ from those in the American colonies? What conditions in Haiti contributed to the success of the slave revolt?
- Explore the core beliefs of the Quakers, the first American abolitionists. Did their religious faith and practices influence their dedication to abolitionism? How did other religious groups in the antebellum period address the issue of slavery?
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