please answer the following the textbook is ” From slavery to freedom .”10th ed by Franklin & O’Higgins 1. Discuss the American Revolution’s impact on slavery. In what ways did the Revolution undermine the institution of slavery? In what ways did the Revolution help to preserve the institution? On balance, did the American Revolution do more to end or to protect the system of slavery in the new United States? 2. In many parts of the United States, the American Revolution seemed to have placed slavery on the road to extinction. Explain why the promise of abolition was fulfilled in some states and not in others. What factors contributed most to determining whether slavery would be abolished? Why did some states move toward emancipation, and then retreat back to a defense of slavery? 3. Discuss how the Philadelphia Convention dealt with the institution of slavery. What divisive questions did the existence of slavery evoke? How were those questions resolved? Which of those questions aroused the least controversy among the delegates? On the whole, did the delegates create a Constitution that was pro-slavery, anti-slavery, or ambivalent about slavery? 4. In a highly influential study, historian Edmund Morgan identified an “American paradox” in the relationship between freedom and slavery in American history. What was the “paradox” which he identified? How might this paradox be explained? 5. The American Revolution produced two African-Americans who were famous in their own time and remain well known today, Crispus Attucks and Phillis Wheatley. How did these two figures achieve their notoriety? What do their lives reveal about the participation of black Americans in the American Revolution, and the limits of said participation?
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