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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am sending another version of the questions. Carl proofed the questions and made a few changes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also the Zoom link is the same one we used last month.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Arielle has AGAIN graciously offered her Zoom conferencing number for our use. Thank you Arielle. The information is below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Arielle Silverman is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Topic: Potomac Chapter Book Club Discussion<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Time: May 6, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">1. What could the North and the South have done to avoid the Civil War and why didn’t they do it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">2. How did Franklin justify continuing to have slaves when he previously said “A slave, … is a human creature stolen, taken by force, bought of another or of himself with money, and being so taken or bought,
is compelled to serve the taker or purchaser during pleasure or in life. He may be sold again. …He is bound to obey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">3. What do you think of George Washington’s having slaves and buying new ones directly from slave ships to avoid the commission?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">4. When was the “Era of Good Feelings?” Who called them that and why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">5. The author of the book states that there were many reasons for the unraveling of slavery in the United States but one in particular exposed the United States as a lie. This was the fact that enslaved black
people, against long odds, repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the south, in search of freedom in the north. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and a reality that a nation putatively
based on the principle of human equality was actually a prison house in which millions of Americans had no rights at all. What do you think about this statement and why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">6. Article IV section 2 clause 3 of the constitution is known as the Fugitive Slave clause. Do you think the founding fathers were trying to address the situation of slavery or put a Band-Aid on it - and
why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">7. What was the compromise of 1850? What did it do and what did it cause?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">8. In Ohio, a black minister who had escaped slavery 20 years earlier remarked that Satan could now rent out hell and move to the United States where he could feel more at home. What does this mean?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">9. “Out of the gap between Emerson’s righteous fury and Lincoln’s reluctant acquiescence comes the driving question of this book.” How could anyone loathe slavery and countenance such an odious law, in Lincoln’s
case, a man who built his political career on opposing it and eventually lead the war that would destroy it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">10. When a particular historical error recurs in one form or another, people must decide whether to submit to an unjust law or resist it. Have there been times when this has occurred in our lifetime?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">11. Was the Civil War for union or a war against slavery or some mixture of the two?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">12. The novelist James McBride said that “The web of slavery is sticky business and at the end of the day ain’t nobody clear of it. What do you think he meant by this?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">13. Where in a slave is the line between humanity and property begin and end?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt">14. F. Scott Fitzgerald says “The ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function” is nowadays referred to as compartmentalization. How did the north
and the south founding fathers utilize this technique? Is compartmentalization still used today in our society? If so, how?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John<o:p></o:p></p>
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