Colonists and Slaves
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- "Hurry up, and get my crops slave!"
- "nnọọ, kedu ka ị mere?"
- "Hello hoe gaan dit?"
- Did you, or did you not enslave the West African people?
- They were meant to be slaves!
- Most of the British colonies enslaved West African people for labor. Southern colonies that owned large farms depended on slave people to get the job done. If the slave didn't do the job fast enough, they would get whipped.
- "Whip them, they are not doing the rowing fast enough!"
- People in West Africa had different ways of life. West Africans spoke many languages witch made it hard to talk in some places. They also practiced different religions, and had their own tales and fables. Some West Africans worked as farmers in villages, while others were traders who lived in cities. Family was very important to many of the West African cultures.
- "This is a good place to live! Let's move here permanently an start some colonies!"
- Many Europeans later on, likewise justified their racist actions by claiming that West Africans were meant to be enslaved. However, the Portuguese racialized slavery by targeting Africans. For example, people in conquered lands were sometimes enslaved. In the late 1400s, Portuguese traders started traveling to West Africa.
- Great Britain will protect the people!
- Portugal was able to grow in power because of enslaving West Africans. Other European countries began doing the same. The British enslaved African people to work in one of their North American colonies. They were put on ships and endured harsh conditions as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Those who survived were auctioned off in North America and then forced to work in miserable conditions.
- Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth were some of the first English colonies in North America. As time passed, more settlers arrived, and the existing colonies grew bigger. Plymouth became a part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Jamestown a part of Virginia. Other colonies also had developed along the Atlantic coast of what would become the United States.
- 1707, was the year that both England and Wales joined Scotland under one government. The nation was called Great Britain. Its people were the now called the British. By the mid-1700s, Great Britain had 13 colonies total in North America.
- This is great!
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