SLAVERY

CAPTURE

• Quabna Cuggano was born in 1757 in Ghana
• He was kidnapped in 1770
• 1st African to fight against slavery

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Olaudah was born in 1745
• He wrote an autobiography
• He bought his freedom in 1766

AUCTION AND SALE

• Mary Prince was born in 1788
• In 1828 she was enslaved
• She wrote an autobiography about her life to make it public

WORK ON PLANTATIONS

• The passage was about the work songs
• The work songs provided an outlet for slaves
• It synchronized their work
• It let them go back to their old culture

PUNISHMENT

• Owners tell the overseers and whip the bad slaves
• They still whip pregnant women but just don't hurt the babies because they sent the babies for slaves
• Owners can punish the slaves however they want they can do anything to the slaves

SUFFERING

• Henry Bibb was born in 1815
• He was the son of the state senator James Bibb
• His mother was Mildred Jackson who was enslaved to a plantation owner

RESISTANCE

• Sojourner Truth was born in 1797
• She started the resistance saying that black women should be treated the same way as white women
• She also said the women should be treated the way that men should

ESCAPE

• Harriet Jacobs was born in 1813
• When her mother died she was taken care of by other women
• They taught her how to read and write
• In 1842 she escaped by boat to the north.

FREEDOM

• Lewis Clarke was born in 1812
• When he escaped he could do whatever he wanted
• He said when he got to free land that he was finally on free soil