HIST 172

Practice Activity 2 – Document Analysis Questions

Instructions –

Type your responses directly into this document, save your changes, then submit your finished assignment to the Dropbox folder. Use complete sentences. The questions on this worksheet refer to the primary source selection, “Advertisements for Runaway Slaves and Servants.”

How did masters hope that their slaves and/or servants would be identified? ​

Where were these advertisements printed? Why would masters look for runaways there?

What do these advertisements reveal about regional variations in the slave experience?

What evidence do these sources provide of the “terrible transformation?”​

How do these advertisements reflect competing ideas about freedom in the British colonies?