Q 1. Discuss the role(s) of African Americans during the American Revolution? How did they respond to the conflict with the British? What motivated their thinking and actions? Which side did they fight for? What was the fate of enslaved Africans who were seeking freedom?

Q 2. Think back to Learning Module 1, when we began with Frederick Douglass speech. Now that you have the context of the slavery and the American Revolution: what would you say the Declaration of Independence meant to African Americans at the time it was drafted? What did men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington think? How does understanding the experience of African Americans support what Frederick Douglass argued in 1854?