CAPTURE

• Quobna ottobah cuguano was kidnaped in 1770
• He was the first to fight against slavery
• He was born in 1757

THE MIDDLE PASSAGE

• Olaudah equiano was born around 1745
• In 1766 he bought his own freedom
• He wrote and published his own book in 1789

AUCTION AND SALE

• Mary prince was born in Bermuda in 1788
• She arrived in London still enslaved in 1828
• "He took me by the hand and led me out to the middle of the street"

WORK ON PLANTATIONS

• Enslaved African Americans they sang songs often
• To express the horrors they witnessed
• "We raise de wheat, dey gib us de corn"

PUNISHMENT

• Esteban montejo fought in the war of independence
• The story of his life was recorded when he was 104 years old
• "I saw my horrors in the way of the punishment under slavery"

SUFFERING

• Henry Bibb was born in Kentucky plantations in 1815
• He finally escaped for good in 1837
• " No arm to protect me from aggression"

RESISTANCE

• Sojourner truth was born in 1797 in New York
• She was given the name Isabella banmfree
• "Ain't I a woman."

ESCAPE

• Harriet Jacobs was born in North Carolina in 1813
• Her mistress took care of her after her mothers death
• She taught her how to read and write until she died in 1895 (mistress)
• "The vessel was soon under way"

FREEDOM

• Lewis Clark was born in 1812
• His father was from Scotland he cam to America in 1800's
• "What my feelings were when I reached the free shore.
• Can be better imagined than descry land"

BY: AYAN BARRE AND DANIELA BELTRAN