1. Why do you think Venture Smith’s story continues to be told today? How might his story be similar to or different from the experiences of other enslaved people?

2. Venture Smith said, “My freedom is a privilege which nothing else can equal.” Explain in your own words what you think he meant by this.

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.