![]() ![]() As you analyze the documents, take into account the source of each document and any point of view that may be presented in the document.ĭownload the student worksheet for Olaudah Equiano. ![]() Some of these documents have been edited, but all are authentic. They are designed to help you practice working with historical documents. These questions are based on the accompanying primary sources. Olaudah Equiano’s first-person account recalls his terrifying journey as an 11-year-old captive aboard a slave ship from Africa to Barbados in 1756. First-person accounts of the Middle Passage are very rare. The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration of people by sea in history. Buying and enslaving the people who supplied this labor ultimately became a lucrative and tragic part of the commerce in the maritime web that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Hard labor made tobacco, rice, and sugar plantations profitable. ![]() From the early days of the American colonies, forced labor and slavery grew to become a central part of colonial economic and labor systems. ![]()
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