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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: The Middle Passage and the Domestic Slave Trade — Drill 8 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
AP African American Studies practice questions on the Middle Passage, resistance at sea, the domestic slave trade, and the economic and social structures that sustained American slavery. AP exam prep aligned to Unit 2 of the College Board CED.
Passage
The author describes being held below deck on a slave ship with so many other captives that each person had barely enough room to turn. The heat was suffocating, the air unbreathable. Many captives became so desperate that they attempted to jump overboard, preferring death to continued captivity. He recalls witnessing other enslaved people resist at every opportunity—refusing food, fighting guards—understanding that their captors feared nothing more than an organized uprising.
— Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789 (paraphrased)
Questions in This Drill
- Which of the following best identifies the main claim Equiano makes in this passage about the experience of the Middle Passage?
- Equiano’s observation that the ship’s crew “feared nothing more than an organized uprising” most directly reflects which of the following broader historical realities?
- Which of the following most directly explains why the domestic slave trade within the United States expanded significantly after 1808?
- A historian argues that the domestic slave trade was not merely an economic system but a deliberate mechanism for exercising social control over enslaved African American communities. Which of the following pieces of evidence would most directly support this argument?
- Which of the following best describes a continuity between the transatlantic slave trade and the domestic slave trade in the United States?