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Questions about Joseph Rainey

1. Where was Joseph Rainey born?
2. Who do you think taught Rainey the skills to work as a barber?

3. What skills did Susan Rainey have?
4. Why do you think Joseph Rainey and his wife escaped from the US?
5. When was slavery abolished in Bermuda?
6. How did Rainey obtain his knowledge about current affairs in Bermuda and
from the US?
7. What do you think were the reasons for Rainey’s return to the US in 1866?
8. What were the injustices black Americans had to endure at the time Joseph
Rainey returned to the US?
9. What party did Joseph Rainey support?
10. Who was the American President who paved the road to freedom of slaves in
January 1863?
Answers: 1. Georgetown, South Carolina. 2. His father. 3. Dressmaker. 4. To have a
better life, to create their own businesses. 5. 1834. 6. From his clients. 7. The Civil
War was over, Rainey wanted to enter politics to help others. 8. Racial discrimina-
tion in schools and in public places. 9. Republican. 10. President Abraham Lincoln.

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