1. When was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 repealed?

2. How many U.S. presidents owned enslaved people during their lifetimes?

3. Who was the last president believed to have brought enslaved persons to live and work at the White House?

4. Between 1525 and 1866, how many Africans were taken against their will on a voyage headed to the New World?

5. Approximately how many million Africans were delivered into the Islamic trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades between 650 and 1905?

6. Which was the first known major slave society?

7. Depending on the date, about what percentage of the population of Zanzibar was enslaved in Arab-Swahili slave systems of the 19th century?

8. By 1850 nearly what percentage of enslaved people on plantations were forced to produce cotton?

9. In 1791 who became a reluctant leader of a rebellion in Saint-Domingue that resulted in the emancipation of enslaved people and, eventually, Haitian independence?

10. What Egyptian group, who had originally been enslaved as professional soldiers, rose to establish a dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria?

11. In 1831 who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in United States history?

12. How many Founding Fathers of the United States were slaveholders?

13. By 1781 which Founding Father had become the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society?

14. Which state’s constitution of 1777 was the first document in the United States to abolish slavery?

15. In 1839 who led the mutiny of 53 enslaved people on the Spanish slave ship Amistad?