SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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True.
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False
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -I. London: Author, [1789]. Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Eboe, in what is now Nigeria. When he was about eleven, Equiano was kidnapped and sold to slave traders headed to the West Indies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some of these slaves have even slaves under them as their own property, and for their own use (40-41). From a young age, Equiano was familiar with the institution of slavery. As an upper class citizen, he was entitled to own slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -Annotation: 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.
Detailed explanation-4: -He spoke out against the English slave trade. He worked to resettle freed slaves. By 1789, the year he published his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano was a well-known abolitionist. Ten years after his death in 1797, the English slave trade was finally abolished.