SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Indentured Servant
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Slave
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Both
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most notable runaway slaves of American history and conductors of the Underground Railroad is Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, around 1822, Tubman as a young adult, escaped from her enslaver’s plantation in 1849.
Detailed explanation-2: -"So after all of that ordeal, his last request in his book, the last line is that he just wished when he dies he could lay right next to the grave of his father, ” Adams says. He says the line still haunts him “every time I read it or think about it."
Detailed explanation-3: -12 Years a Slave is based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped in the North and sold into slavery. He worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana, where he remained for 12 years until he was released.