Author described: Brought to the New World in cruel condit…

  Author described: Brought to the New World in cruel conditions at eleven years old, I was torn away from my family in my native Nigeria. I was taught to read and write, eventually being able to buy my freedom. I wrote one of the first slave narratives and challenged “Christians” who could support the unspeakable inhumane practice of slavery.

This state ended slavery legally even before the U.S. govern…

This state ended slavery legally even before the U.S. government was formed, passing the decision to end slavery almost immediately after the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution. The justice who drafted the law wrote about passing this important decision

  Identify title of the quote: They began to gather in the s…

  Identify title of the quote: They began to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion.