Gottlieb Mittelberge, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750), Richard Frethorne, Letter to his parents (1623), Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788), Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788) p. 30-39
...to wrist of other person. The women were placed in separate room, and were only handcuffed. The children are also placed in different room. Olaudah Equiano, an Ibo from Nigeria, was just 11 years old when he was kidnapped into slavery. He was held captive in West Africa for seven months and then sold to British slavers, who shipped him to Barbados and then took him to Virginia, so Equiano was black slave. In the reading he talks about the complexion being different of those people from his, its because he never saw a white person, and he never saw a sea so he was very frighten. Some of the cruelty Equino witness was he said, “ Black people of every description chained together, everyone of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow”. He also mention that he was so afraid of white men that he though they were going to eat him. He also describe he first experience with liquor. Also described how African prisoners were getting whipped for not eating. The reason why I think the use of indentured servants declined leading to an explosion in the African slave trade. Because the supply of enslaved Africans increased, one can predict that if you increase in the supply of slaves, the price of servants (as planters demanded slaves rather servants). That’s why I believer indentured servants declined. In the picture description, they describe for the Indentured servants, they can agree how many years they want to work for their masters. At the end of the term the servant might be given cloths, tools, a small sum of money. The servants were sold to plantation owners at auction, so pretty much there life is kind of like slave but not bad as slave. I don’t think Elisabeth Canning had a choice to emigrate. Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766) p 49-63 Franklin gave his blunt testimony in Parliament against the notorious anti-American tax known as the Stamp Act. Benjamin Franklin was a colonial agent in London at the time. He warned that the British Empire would be destroyed if it persisted in looting the colonies. American pays many and vary heavy taxes. There are taxes on all estates, real and personal, a poll tax, and tax on officers, professions, trades, and business, for the support of the civil and military establishments of the country. I don’t think there is enough hard coin to pay stamp tax, because Franklin said “in my opinion there is not gold and silver enough in the colonies to pay the stamp duty”. One of the reason why Franklin complain is because people in colonies don’t have money to pay for stamp act. In one of the question Franklin argues that the money goes to soldiers, but where are the soldiers? Not in the colonies that’s for sure, so why should colony pay stamp act for them. One of the other reasons is because Franklin was a colonial agent so he should fight for the colony. American does not want to pay Stamp Tax. Americans are resisting British authority with a combination of economics intimidation and violence and also by boycotting British goods. Well one of the reasons why they don’t want to pay more money to British Government, because they are already paying too much money on different taxes. Yes I think Franklin’s argument would cause American revolution, because there were three most important events that led to and caused American Revolution one was The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea party, and third was The Stamp act. The Stamp act was last straw. It was the one that pushed the colonies over the edge. One of the arguments that Franklin makes is that he said “You will find that, if the act is not repealed, they will take very little of your manufactures in a short time”. Patrick Henry, “Give Me Liberty or Give me Death” (1775) p56-58. Patrick Henry was born on May 29, 1736 in Hanover County, Virginia. Patrick Henry was a lawyer, patriot, orator, and willing participant in virtually every aspect of the founding of America. The reason for Henry's speech was that he was protesting England's imposition of the “Intolerable Acts” against the colonies. These resulted from the Boston Tea Party, and generally from the resistance to English imperial control during the preceding decade. He was trying to influence his listeners that the colonies deserv...