Focus on the main idea: Slavery expanded rapidly in the English Colonies during the 1700's, especially in the Southern Colonies.
Questions to think about as you read:
1 What conclusion can you draw about the talents and skills of enslaved people based on the kind of work they did?
2 What valuable crop did enslaved people of West Africa show planters how to raise?
3 What hardships were enslaved Africans on Southern plantations forced to endure?
4 How did Olaudah Equiano feel about equality and independence?
1 They had different talents and skills.
2 They showed planters how to grow rice in the Carolinas.
3 They worked hard all day and sometimes during the night; their families were broken up; they had to struggle to keep their culture alive.
4 He believed they were important rights with which all humans were born.
Questions to think about as you read:
1 What conclusion can you draw about the talents and skills of enslaved people based on the kind of work they did?
2 What valuable crop did enslaved people of West Africa show planters how to raise?
3 What hardships were enslaved Africans on Southern plantations forced to endure?
4 How did Olaudah Equiano feel about equality and independence?
1 They had different talents and skills.
2 They showed planters how to grow rice in the Carolinas.
3 They worked hard all day and sometimes during the night; their families were broken up; they had to struggle to keep their culture alive.
4 He believed they were important rights with which all humans were born.