Colonial+America


 * Colonial America**

About: The Video on the Navigation Acts Notes for the video: The video in the beginning said that the navigation acts were made because Enlgand was afraid that colonies would become independent. The flow of wealth was supposed to go to England but it instead it went to the colonies. I don't think that the students had gotten their facts correctly. The video seemed to stick to one side more than the other.
 * Be the Critic!**

"September 22, 2010


 * Do Now:**
 * Southern Colonies**

Notes:
 * South was still agricultural
 * South had cash crops = crops that were grown to be sold for money. Esp tobacco, rice and indigo, made them very wealthy.
 * Rope, tar and turpentine used to make ships, made south really wealthy.
 * By 1754 South Carolina exported a million pound of indigo annually.
 * Many workers had gotten malaria because of working in the rice fields.
 * Main Idea : The southern colonies made money using cash crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo.

CCQ's
 * Plantation needed workers, so they got slaves. Did they get the slaves illegally by trading with Africa without England knowing?
 * West Africans brought knowledge of growing rice to Am. Then if it wasn't for Africans then they would not know how to grow rice on their own?
 * Why were the Africans were more immuned from getting malaria?" -Jen Tran

CCQ: I don't think that the slaves were traded illegally. I'm pretty sure that British official would wonder where all these slaves are coming form.Then again there might be some British officials that found out yet chose to ignore it for the sake of getting a better deal on the slaves.

"**Northern Colonies:** Main Idea: CCQ: Eventually the colonists did figure out a way to grow crops. How did they figure it out? Did they figure it out themselves?
 *  Farmers in New England couldn't grow crops all year long because of unpredictable weather.
 *  After the Navigation Acts costal cities were the center of ship building.
 *  England's crop growing methods didn't work on New England's thin and rocky soil.
 *  They needed crop for money."

**Homework:** CCQ: When I saw this picture it sticked to my mind for a moment. HOW can someone do this to another fellow human being? I really found that it was cruel. There was this one time when I watched this movie at school. It was about a slave and the white slave owner. The white slave onwer apparently bought this young girl(about 14) for his own sexual pleasures.

September 23, 2010

media type="custom" key="7337869" I thought that this slide show shows you the sad side of slavery. it makes you feel sympathy... You can see the guy with the scars on his back. I am trying to make the owner think, when he saw that image, that he is hurting a human being. not an "it". in the redone video you can see two pictures of the slaves hard at work below. The slaves ahouldnt be doing all this work. Isn' there ANOTHER way to get things done without slavery? When you see these pictures of slaves or hear stories about slaves doesn't it make you think "why?". When i heard about slavery it was just someone using someone else to get their work done. There actually is more. There are times when slaves have made families. Soon when their children are old enough they are sold. Isn't that just sad? It's like being with your parents 12 years out of you life and the rest working or "being used".

Sep﻿tember 24, 2010

**Olaudah Equiano Describes the Horrors of a Slave Ship **

workforce in their American colonies in the early 1500s. English colonists in North America followed in the early 1600s. A profitable transatlantic slave trade developed. By 1860 Europeans had enslaved more than eleven million Africans. The journey across the ocean was horrifying for the captives. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">Many did not <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">survive the voyage. <span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Slave traders captured Olaudah Equiano when he was eleven years old. He later wrote about his experiences as a captive. Some scholars doubt that Equiano actually made the Middle Passage himself. Still his account provides an important description of the journey.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">ABOUT THE SOURCE **<span style="font-family: ArialMT,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Spanish began using African slaves as a

//<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">words may be new to you: //**<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">countenances **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">, **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">windlass **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">, **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">pestilent **
 * //<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">As you read //**//<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">note how the crew members treated the Africans. The following //

<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast, was thesea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon converted into terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me. . . When I looked round the ship too, and saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">countenances **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate. . . I now saw myself deprived of all chance of returning to my native country, or even the least glimpse of hope of gaining the shore, which I now considered as friendly. . . I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste any thing. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and, on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think the **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">windlass **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">, and tied my feet, while the other flogged [whipped] me severely. I had never experienced any thing of this kind before, and although not being used to the water, I naturally feared that element the first time I saw it, yet, nevertheless, could I have got over the nettings, I would have jumped over the side, but I could not; and besides, the crew used to <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">watch us very closely who were <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">not chained down to the decks, lest we should leap into the water; and I have seen some of these poor African prisoners most severely cut, for attempting to do so, and <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">hourly whipped for not eating. This indeed was often the case with myself. . . The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air; but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This produced **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">copious ** <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">perspirations, so that <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">—thus falling victims to the improvident **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">avarice **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">, as I may call it, of their purchasers. This wretched situation was again aggravated by the galling of the chains, now became insupportable; and the filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were almost suffocated. The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: aqua; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat;">horror almost inconceivable. . . Every circumstance I met with. . . heightened my apprehensions, and my opinion of the cruelty of the whites. . . One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen who were chained together. . . preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made though the nettings and jumped into the sea: immediately, another quite dejected fellow, who, on account of his illness, was suffered to be out of irons, also followed their example; and I believe many more would very soon have done the same, if they had not been prevented by the ship’s crew, who were instantly alarmed.
 * <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">pestilential **<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">. This closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added

<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Source: //<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the // //<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">African, Written by Himself //

<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">1. What did crew members do to Africans who refused to eat? Why do you think they did this? When the Africans refused to eat, the crew members would whip them for an hour. These slaves were important trade. If the slaves died, then money would be lost. CCQ: The slaves were treated as goods but it was more important because not only are they worth more, they are bought by being judged how they look. This means that a fragile slave won't be bought, but instead a strong and sturdy one.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">WHAT DID YOU LEARN? **

<span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">2. Why did so many Africans on the ship die? Africans on the ships would die because the air on the ship was very smelly. The sickness travels amongst the slaves because the air was filled with the smells from the many “businesses” the slaves made. So, the air became very unfit for breathing. Sickness would circulate and thus many of the slaves would die. CCQ: For such a small place the slaves were expected to survive. It seems quite impossible. If one slave gets sick then the rest of them will end up catching it.

<span style="display: block; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">3. How were the Africans treated? Why do you think they were treated this way? Africans were treated as objects. They weren't humans to anyone. They were probably treated this way because the white people are led to think that the Africans aren't very bright. To the white the black has lost their humanity and live for no other reason than to work for the white.

**//This is a picture of Olaudah Equiano in nice and fancy clothing...//** CCQ: Isn't he very human? He has four eyes, a nose ears and other body parts that someone else would typically have. So then why would the white think anything less of them? Color does't judge everything.