1.    Who is the author of this document, and who was the intended audience?

2.    What is the tone of this document? How does its tone compare to that of Documents 2 and 3?

3.    Waterbury compares modern U.S. slavery with the enslavement of the Israelites described in the Bible (page 4). Why does Waterbury make this comparison? How is his audience likely to respond to that comparison?

4.    Waterbury assumes that some formerly enslaved people would rather return to slavery than face poverty and privation as free people (page 5). In Document 2 (page 5), Yeatman also argues that some formerly enslaved people might rather return to slavery than be treated as badly as they were by the government and the army near the end of the Civil War. How does this commonly held belief among white people at the time square with what you have learned about newly emancipated African Americans during and after the Civil War?

5.    Where does Waterbury suggest that newly freed people settle and find work (pages 19-20)? What is his attitude towards colonization (page 20)? Would he agree with the author of Document 3 on the subject of colonization?

6.    Waterbury offers lots of advice for newly freed African Americans, including his suggestion “to behave yourselves meekly under your new-found freedom, and to look to God in prayer for comfort, for help, and for guidance” (pages 20-21). What parallels can you draw between this advice and the Christianity of white southerners before the Civil War, or Christian-based resistance to the Civil Rights movement among northern and southern whites?