Colonial+America

Colonial America

MI: The colonists had to adapt to their land and what they had. sd: their land in New England was very rocky and the weather was unpratictable so they couln't grow crops. They needed crops for money. sd: Since the number of fur bearing animals decreased costal towns became perfect for ship building.

C: I didn't know we did whaling back then.

This picture relates to what i read because costal towns built alot of shipyards. I disagree because the navigation acts stopped the colonies from trading with other countries, which gave england more money. So it was not ill-conceived because it made England more money. Colonists bought slaves because they only had to pay once. Even if they bought slaves that were strong and expensive, they wouldn't have to pay the slave at all for labor. If they hired colonists they would have to pay them every time they did work for them, so it was much less expensive to buy slaves. The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast, was the sea, 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 **countenances **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 <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="background: lime; 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="background: lime; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">relieve me; <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;"> 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="background: lime; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">and laid me across, I think the **<span style="background: lime; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">windlass **<span style="background: lime; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">, and tied my feet, while the other <span style="background: lime; 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="background: yellow; 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="background: yellow; 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="background: yellow; 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="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely **<span style="background: yellow; 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: 11.5pt;">to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This produced **<span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">copious ** <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a  <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">of which many died—thus falling victims to the improvident **<span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">avarice **<span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">, as I  <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">may call it, of their purchasers. This wretched situation was again <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">aggravated by the galling of the chains, now became insupportable; and the <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">almost suffocated. The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable. . . Every <span style="background: yellow; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">circumstance I met with. . . heightened my apprehensions, and my opinion <span style="background: 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;">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="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">such a life of misery, 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.
 * CCQ on Nacvigation acts**
 * Reponse to "Why did colonists buy slaves instead of hiring workers?"**

<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;">CCQ: I would want to die to if I had to live in those conditions. <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">CCQ: I think they beat Africans that didn’t eat because they wanted them to be strong and healthy.

I does not matter if his story is a lie, because it shows how terrible slaves were treated and how the slave owners took their humanity away.

My opinion is changed because he was a slave trader himself. He bought his freedom by selling other slaves. I can kind of understand why he did, but its still wrong, This shoul definently change your opinion about him.

Summary: I do think it was wrong of him to pretend to suffer so much and to be a slave while he was a slave trader himself. Although I do believe that in a way his book helped end slavery.

3/5- was signed to say that 3/5's of the slave population was counted for the population of the nation.