Colonial Triangular Trade
By the 1780s, approximately 97,000 slaves a year were being sent to the Americas on more than 800 British slave ships. Most went from Africa to the West Indies, where they were traded for molasses. In New England, the colonists used the molasses to manufacture rum. British merchants completed the triangle of human misery by trading the rum for more slaves. This anthology provides a glimpse at primary and secondary source documents that describe this terrible episode in world history.
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Declaration of Independance
Wim Coleman excerpts the works of John Locke, Thomas Paine, Richard Henry Lee, John Dickinson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and others. The reader gets an in-depth look at Thomas Jefferson's ideas on slavery, government, liberty, and human nature. Revealing details of the changes made to Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration and the final version are illustrated by passages of edited text. The anthology is rounded out by excerpts from "A Declaration of Woman's Rights," Abraham Lincoln's Declaration of Independence, and the 1970 Black Declaration of Independence.
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