1. Chapter 9, Section 2

2. Black Arkansas and The Slave
Codes

4. How did the treatments of slaves
in Arkansas differ from those
states like Virginia?

5. Our plantations were often crude.

7. Who was Elisha Worthington?

8. A Chicot country slave owner.

10. Describe the job of an
“overseer”.

11. Boss of a group of slaves, usually a
white man hired to work on the
plantation.

13. Describe the process of how
cotton was picked.

14. hand and dropped it into a basket
on their backs, then went to a gin
and had it take out the seeds, then it
got compressed.

16. What were some of the jobs that
slaves performed on plantations?

17. Blacksmiths, brick masons,
wheelwrights, carpenters, and soon.

18. They had a high price.

20. Explain the laws that did not
allow slaves to leave their
owner’s land?

21. They were laws of the society and
the state that said slaves couldn’t
leave the land without a pass.

23. Explain the punishment that
slaves would often endure for
breaking laws.

24. Slaves were tortured (whipped,
shot and beat)

26. How often would you see free
blacks in Arkansas?

27. Tell the story of Nathan Warren.

28. Very rare. Never more than a few
hundred.

29. Nathan Warren (free black) became
very rich as a candy maker and
bought freedom of his wife,
brother, and children.

31. In January of 1860, The
Arkansas General Assembly
passed what law?

32. Free blacks must leave the state,
because they would be safer there.

34. What were some of the (African)
customs that were passed on
from generation to generation?

35. Religious customs, music, and
foods (gumbo, catfish,
hushpuppies, etc.)