Questions on Joseph Ellis' "The Silence"
?The Silence? Questions By Joseph J. Ellis Taken From Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 1. On February 11, 1790, two Quaker delegates to Congress presented a petition tend what practice? The African slave trade 2. The United States Constitution said this practice could not be abolished until what year? 1808 3. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society made two new points in their petition for the abolition of slavery. Name one. Both slavery and the slave trade were incompatible with the values for which the American Revolution had been fought 4. The Pennsylvania Abolition Society's appeal to Congress arrived under the signature of what "founding brother"? Benjamin franklin