African and the Atlantic World
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
Racism [2]
slavery [3]
Slave ship [7]
Slave rebellion [8]
middle passage [9]
Abolitionism [10]
Black people [11]
Atlantic Creole [12]
Slavery in Portugal [13]
Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 9 August 2015 Chapter 25 Outline Africa/Atlantic 1760-92, west African man Thomas Peters crossed Atlantic 4 times 1760, slaveraiders captured Peters, went to coast, sold him to French slave merchants Traveled in slave ship to French colony Louisiana, worked on sugar plantation Attempted to escape 3 times, master beat, branded forced him to wear shackles 1760s, sold to English, 1770, Scottish landowner in North Carolina bought him 1770s, English in North America rebelled against Brits War broke, went to wife/daughter in Brit lines/joined Black Pioneers, escaped slaves who fought to maintain Brits in colonies Colonists won, Petersescaped to Nova Scotia with fam./former slaves