Chapter Ten: Strong As Death

Pre-Reading Reading Discussion:

Why do they seem to feel such responsibility for him? Pryor paid Keller to punish one of the men who helped Mercer escape.

• Why do they seem to feel such responsibility for him? Pryor paid Keller to punish one of the men who helped Mercer escape.
• How may this slave catcher reappear in the story?

Vocabulary:

• privy (p.229)
• dray (p.235)
• pernicious (p.237)
• Delphic (p.238)
• harangue (p.239)
• treachery (p.240)
• Liberia (p.243)

Read:

Chapter Ten

Post-Reading Discussion:

• How did Negroes react to Wayland Silver's emigration to Africa movement?
• Why had he become in the eyes of colored men an educated Negro speaking treachery?
• For what reason did he attack the good white folk in his speeches?
• Why does he not trust state legislatures schemes to send colored Americans to Africa?

Group Activity:

In small groups, research the newspapers mentioned in the chapter: The Liberator, The Anglo-African, and The Christian Recorder. Find the interest and size of the readership. How were they alike or different? On a map of West Africa find the republic of Liberia. Who were the founders of Liberia?