Someone from another country asks you about George Washington. “Is it true he was a slave holder?” How would you answer this question?

Students will be able to analyze pictures and original source documents to create an explanation of how tobacco plantations worked

Read PhillisWheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious, and Moral, 1772

The overseer made sure the work got done

What does overseer mean in this context?

The biography of OlaudahEquiano is an original source document

It was created by someone who was there when the historic event happened

What was boiled?

Liquid from the Sugar Tree

Sugar Tree will count but this is a better answer

Group of slaves pushed by overseer

Work from dawn to dusk

Brutal system

Common in the Caribbean

Work until your list of jobs is donePossibly less

efficientLess brutalLeft time for

slaves to tend to their own needs

In the southern colonies, as well as Cuba

The first plantations in North America

In response to the demand for tobacco in Europe

People who used sugar and tobacco were guilty of promoting and benefitting from slavery – yes or no

Use 3 facts to make your argument

3 paragraph minimum

Clearly take a position

Use good grammar

Read first person accounts of life on a tobacco plantation. Answer questions. Write an account of a imagined visit to such a plantation

I have just arrived at Franklin’s Plantation, in Virginia. My boss says that to become a better overseer, I need to learn how other plantations do things

I am amazed how easily these enormous hogsheads get loaded on the ships! These slaves really know their jobs!

What was the task system?Answer on the card provided