Colonial+America

Colonial America

Mercantilism benefits both sides meaning neither England nor the colonies were being used. That was because England had been nicer or less strict which is salutary neglect. This was happening and England got mad because the colonies should only trade with them. Thats why England passed the Navagational Act. Not because the colonies were getting a better deal which the colonies thought they were getting ripped off. Meaning this video was more bias to England than the colonies.

__CCQ's on Colonial America__

I disagree because the Navigational Acts were made because England just wanted more money than what they were getting. So they would pass this law that way the colonies would only trade with them. This is because the colonies getting better deals from other countries. That is why the Navigational Acts is not ill-conceived.

9/22/10 __Colonial America's Economy__

Main Idea- The northern colonists had rough ground and short growing seasons. So to suceed they had to create a new way to crop and produce food. But they had great resources and that helped their industries prosper because of mercantilism. So they traded and got lots of money.

CCQ- That is ridiculous how people were trading slaves for sugar and molasses!

The colonists probably thought why waist our money when we can get free service. That was the colonists thought they were better they were smarter and they could do what they want. The slaves couldn't do anything to stop it either cause they were being used and tricked. So the colonist thought wow these people are such efficient workers lets bring more over and have even more work for free. That way they got work done and got to keep the money they would have used on a paid laborer.

__Navigational Acts video__

The students from the video did get their facts right, but they didn't really mention salutary neglect and how that caused the Navigational Acts. Also they could have mentioned the Navigational Act didn't just England more.

9/23/10

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The colonists felt the need for slaves because they could get them to do whatever they wanted and do dangerous jobs that will kill people. That way they have no right to say no to their task unlike a hired laborer. Well imagine this instead of you owning the slaves your are the slaves, constantly being misused. Being separated from their families, working as best they can for as long as their told, having no rights, barely given enough food, water, and shelter to survive. While they do all this if they don't please their owner they are beaten until the owner feels they learned their lesson. If you never enslaved their race in the first place you would have never have used slaves therefore doing your own work. So of you work and all your slaves work and get paid everything will be fine because eventually we will be capitalists.

My pictures in this slide represent my answer that is why I choose them. I showed how dependent people were on slaves and how not just Americans traded for slaves. Also how I showed families being separated and beaten to show what is what really like back then. Lastly I showed how eventually if you were a slaves child you were a slave as well.

9/24/10

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

**ABOUT THE SOURCE **The Spanish began using African slaves as a  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. Many did not survive the voyage. 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.

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

<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: 'Arial-BoldMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">WHAT DID YOU LEARN? ** <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? They whipped them. They probably did this because they wanted them to look healthy enough to be sold off for more money.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">2. Why did so many Africans on the ship die? The living environment was so bad for example the air was unfit to breathe.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">3. How were the Africans treated? Why do you think they were treated this way? They were treated with abuse and disrespect that way they would fear those people and stay in line.

CCQ- That is unbelievable that slaves got whipped just for not eating. CCQ-Also how the environment they were in was so bad they couldn’t breathe.

CCQ- Why did the slaves refuse the food?

CCQ-Is the story really true if people say that there is no proof he even made the middle passage?

CCQ-Amazing he taught himself to read and write and wrote a book.

Even if this book was a lie doesn't mean the things like this didn't happen. He could have retold a story a story he heard from a fellow slave that went through the middle passage. This book still sybolizes that being slave was tough and they were abused and mistreated for many things such as refusing to eat. So yes even if this book is a lie it is still important.

Just because he made his fortune buying and selling slaves doesn't change my opinion of the book and it shouldn't because those things still happened. But it did change mt opinion of him being this misfurtunate person he probably is on of the biggest contradiction or hypocrit in history. But he did start the abolitionists and probably was one of the most important people who helped stop slavery.



Homework- My overall perspective of Equiano is he is a hard-working and dedicated person. He may have purchased his freedom by selling slaves but he did it to survive. Honestly in a world back then it was survival of the fittest he did what he had to do to survive. He visited as an explorer South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the Americas, and the United Kingdom. Also after going through the middle passage he was sold to a Quaker merchant from Philadelphia who traveled through the Caribbean. Then sold the Quaker named Robert King sold Equiano his freedom back for forty pounds.