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Many enslaved women in the U.S. were forced to bear their enslavers’ children. For 10 points each:
[10e] Annette-Gordon Reed wrote about this enslaved woman’s family at Monticello. DNA tests confirmed that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least six of her children.
ANSWER: Sally Hemings [accept either underlined portion; accept The Hemingses of Monticello]
[10m] This woman claimed that White women knew of other enslavers’ children, but acted as if biracial children on their own estates “dropped from the clouds.” C. Vann Woodward’s annotated version of this woman’s diary of the Civil War won a Pulitzer Prize.
ANSWER: Mary Boykin Chestnut [or Mary Boykin Miller]
[10h] This scholar analyzed how a legal “discourse of seduction” excused rape by enslavers in her book Scenes of Subjection. She used “critical fabulation” to recover an enslaved woman’s story from the “violence of the archive” in “Venus in Two Acts.”
ANSWER: Saidiya V. Hartman
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaLSE0000
Chicago ARutgers1001020EH
Chicago BMinnesota100010E
Columbia ANorth Carolina A10101030EMH
Cornell ATexas1001020EH
FloridaNYU100010E
Georgia StateYale100010E
HarvardToronto B1001020EH
Illinois AIndiana1010020EM
Illinois BRIT1010020EM
Johns HopkinsGeorgia Tech1010020EM
MITToronto C100010E
MarylandColumbia B100010E
Ohio StateNorth Carolina B100010E
StanfordToronto A1010020EM
UC Berkeley BArizona State1010020EM
UCFCornell B100010E
VanderbiltWinona State100010E
VirginiaMichigan100010E
Virginia TechIowa State100010E
WUSTL ANorthwestern100010E
WUSTL BPenn State1001020EH
Waterloo AUC Berkeley A1010020EM
Waterloo BOttawa100010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2414.5896%29%21%