1. Frederick Douglass published the first issue of which newspaper in Rochester, New York, on 3 December 1847? The Liberator Freedom’s Journal The North Star The Anglo-African Douglass launched The North Star in Rochester on 3 December 1847. Read more 2. On 1–2 June 1863 Harriet Tubman guided which Union operation in South Carolina, freeing more than 700 enslaved people? The Combahee River Raid The assault on Fort Wagner The Battle of Olustee The capture of Fort Sumter Tubman guided the Combahee River Raid, which freed more than 700 enslaved people. Read more 3. Which state did Hiram Revels represent when he was seated in the U.S. Senate on 25 February 1870? South Carolina Louisiana Alabama Mississippi Elected by the Mississippi legislature, Revels became the first African American to serve in the Senate and in Congress. Read more 4. On 13 May 1862 Robert Smalls seized which Confederate steamer and delivered sixteen people to the Union blockade? Hunley Planter Virginia Alabama Smalls, an enslaved harbor pilot, took the Planter out of Charleston harbor to the Union fleet. Read more 5. What was the title of Ida B. Wells’s 1892 pamphlet on lynching? Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases A Voice from the South The Souls of Black Folk Up from Slavery Wells published Southern Horrors in 1892, the year a mob destroyed her newspaper office and drove her from Memphis. Read more 6. What was Sojourner Truth’s name at birth? Araminta Ross Sarah Breedlove Isabella Baumfree Anna Murray She was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York, and took the name Sojourner Truth on 1 June 1843. Read more 7. Nat Turner’s August 1831 revolt, the deadliest slave rebellion in U.S. history, took place where? Charleston, South Carolina Southampton County, Virginia Richmond, Virginia New Orleans, Louisiana Turner launched the revolt at the Travis farm in Southampton County, Virginia, on 21–22 August 1831. Read more 8. In what city did David Walker, a clothing dealer, date the first edition of his Appeal in September 1829? Wilmington Savannah New York Boston Walker dated the first edition in Boston on 28 September 1829. Police in Savannah seized copies that December. Read more 9. In 1863 Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne led the AME Church’s purchase of which institution, becoming its president? Howard University Fisk University Wilberforce University Lincoln University Payne led the purchase of Wilberforce University on 10 March 1863 and served as its president until 1876. Read more 10. Which novel did Frances Ellen Watkins Harper publish in 1892? Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted Clotel Our Nig Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harper published Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted in 1892, late in a six-decade career as poet, novelist, and lecturer. Read more Check my answers ← All quizzes