BY: ELIZABETH, LUCY & ERIN

CAPTURE

• People sold their own family's out as slaves
• Those who sold their family had done for better status
• Slaves were treated better in Africa then in the United States

OLAUDAH EQUIANO

• Born around 1745

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• There were many deaths
• There was not very much room

AUCTION AND SALES

• Families were split
• Lives ruined
• Slaves looked at like animals

WORK ON PLANTATIONS

• The slaves were given the crusts of bread
• The skins of meat
• And they had to do all of the work to make the food
• The owners took the good food

PUNISHMENT

• Many people were whipped
• Even pregnant women were whipped!
• Had whips made of: raw hide,
• Fibers from a jungle plant,
• And they were put in stocks (look at background)

SUFFERING

• They had no/almost blood family
• Not very many ways to stay happy
• "But here in the light of these truth, I was a slave,
• I could possess nothing, nor acquire anything,
• But what must belong to master"

RESISTANCE

• "I have ploughed, planted, and gathered
• Into barns, and no man could head me!"
• - Sojourner Truth
• She was born in 1797
• Many slaves resisted against the white men

ESCAPE

• "The captain soon came to advise us to
• Go on deck for fresh air"
• -Harriet Jacobs
• This section was about how the captain of the ship
• With slaves was nice to the slaves and let them up for fresh air

FREEDOM

• When set free the slaves were overcome with deep emotion
• The slaves felt as though part of themselves was given back to them
• But once the feeling was gone they felt slightly confused of what to do next
• Here is a quote by Lewis Garrad Clarke
• "My hands, my feet were now my own, but what to do with them was the next question