Questions that will be on the quiz tomorrow

¨Read the excerpt from Jim Hornby’s Black Islanders.

¨Please answer the following questions in your notebooks:

1.What percentage of Black Islanders lived in rural areas? What types of jobs did they occupy?

2.Explain what John Prevost represents to the  Island’s black community.

3.Outside of Charlottetown, name the community that had the highest black population. What three black families were most prominent?

 

¨4.  Explain the evolution of the “Suckles/Sickles” family name.

¨5.  What can be attributed to the high proportion of mixed marriages in rural areas in the late 1800s?

¨6.  Explain the quote “Rural white Islanders also appear to have accepted blacks to a high degree in practice.” What does “in practice” mean? Explain.

¨7.  What was a positive for those living in The Bog? A negative? If you were a Black Islander living during this time, where do you think you would have preferred to live? Explain and support your answer.