• Did the American Revolution fail African Americans?
• What were the effects of the Haitian Revolution on black Americans?
• How do you think white Americans responded to Haiti’s Revolution?
• What was the American colonization movement?

Ingersoll on New Orleans

• What is the thesis of this article?
• What sorts of of sources does Ingersoll use to make his argument? Primary sources? Are they reliable?
• How did the lives of both enslaved and free African Americans change according to the colonial power?
• Ingersoll says on p. 200 that the treatment of free blacks in New Orleans is an example of how race relations were used to unite all whites. What does he mean by that?
• Do you think democracy in the United States would have been possible without slavery?