In Sparks’s writing, the Robin Johns’ story allows us "to translate those statistics (of the slave trade) into people" (5). The Robin Johns’ enslavement and liberation resulted from their active roles as slave traders at the West African region of Old Calabar. Ephraim Robin John and Ancona Robin John were members of the elite Efik slave traders of Old Calabar and participated in the Ekpe secret society that governed the commercial relations with Atlantic traders. As Old Calabar grew from a small town in the late seventeenth century to one of the most important slave trading regions of the eighteenth century, Efik traders such as the Robin Johns came to
The book deals with various themes such as discrimination, separation, slavery, oppression and survival. The Book of Negroes offers a portrayal of slavery in all its horror. The story begins in the small village of Bayo in Africa where 11-year-old Aminata is abducted from her home, held in a slave pen, and eventually transported on a slave ship across the Atlantic. She is initially enslaved in a South Carolina plantation but is relocated many times in her life. Among the painful experiences she endures, she also has some hopeful experiences; such as, when she is taken to New York and the British get her to document information about the black people who have been sent away.
Abijah and Lucy married in Deerfield where they had their six children. Their names were Tatnai, Cesar, Drucilla, Durexa, Abijah Jr. and Festus. They also lived in a small house which is now Deerfield Academy. By law, Lucy and her children should have remained slaves since the offspring of slaves follow the condition of the mother. Despite the fact, neither Lucy or her six children were ever slaves again.
Ch.4 Sec 1: Slavery and Empire -Mercantilism realized: the triangular trade. -West Africa had become a thriving slave industry since the Portuguese had arrived while going to the West coast. Most slaves went to other destinations, like South America( Brazil), Caribbean and then some to the Americas. Very little of them went straight to North America. *The Ordeal of the Slave* -A state of perpetual terror: 1) first caught from her/ his tribe by the Europeans or another tribe.
For many centuries Europeans went to Africa and took the people there by force. They sold the people as slaves to other Europeans in North and South America. This lead to the slave triangle which was the three stages of the voyage that were
Harriet Jacobs’ Narrative "I want to add my testimony to that of abler pens to convince the people of the Free States what slavery really is. Only by experience can any one realize how deep, and dark, and foul is that pit of abominations." After nearly seven years hiding in a storeroom crawlspace above her grandmother’s home, Harriet Ann Jacobs took a step that other slaves dared to dream. She secretly boarded a boat in Edenton, N.C., bound for Philadelphia, New York; eventually she reunited with her children and gained freedom. This young slave woman’s fight and faith were written in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, self-published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent.
She was originally from an Arawak village in South America, where she was captured as a child, taken to Barbados as a captive, and sold into slavery... Parris, at the time, was an unmarried merchant, leading to speculation that Tituba may have served as his concubine. Tituba helped maintain the Parris household on a day-to-day basis... Tituba made herself a likely target for witchcraft...". Arthur Miller uses a lot of that data to build Tituba's character "The door opens, and his Negro slave enters, Tituba is in her forties. Parris brought her with him from Barbados, where he spent some years as merchant before entering the ministry. She enters as one does who can no longer bear to be barred from the sight of her beloved, but she is also very frightened because her slave sense has warned her that, as always trouble in this house eventually lands on her back."
The slave era can be agreed it was a terrible atrocity upon our fellow man, and it cannot be brought into a light of just, but it did give birth to some true characters who we can look up to and live alike. The characters in both Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass are ideal examples of true characters as they pushed through slavery and gained freedom but did not stop there. Jacobs’ spent her freedom getting her families’ freedom and Douglass went on to help others escape and spread knowledge on the cruelty of slavery. The last thing, and most powerful thing this book left me with is that each slave was an individual unalike any other, and these individuals were in fact an individual, individuals who lived their life for the betterment of others and accomplished an impossible
Harriet received nicknames like “Moses” and “General Tubman” because of her bravery and hard work during these journeys. Her name spread like lightning through slave quarters and abolitionist societies, southern slaveholders soon became angered and offered $40,000 rewards for her capture. She always avoided slave catchers and would never give up, even when she was almost got caught while sleeping under one of her own “wanted”
The middle passage was a memorable time for everyone as in African Americans. “The Middle Passage” the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the West coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas. America would trade crash crops in exchange for slaves. Cash crops are crops produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. One of the famous slaves Olaudah Equiano a former African American who was kidnapped at age 11 and sold to slave traders with his sister.