Plantation life had left African Americans with little knowledge of what to expect when freedom actually came. The brutal plantation system had prevented slaves from learning to read and write, owning property, or living independent lives. Plantation life, which lasted for more than two centuries, is explored in this new book by award-winning author Richard Worth.
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Plantation life had left African Americans with little knowledge of what to expect when freedom actually came. The brutal plantation system had prevented slaves from learning to read and write, owning property, or living independent lives. Plantation life, which lasted for more than two centuries, is explored in this new book by award-winning author Richard Worth.
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This book is easy and clear to read about especially when history can be tedious. A small amount of review of what the book speaks of ; In Virgiania Africa population reached to 2,000 in 1670 and 6,000 in 1700. In Maryland slave population reached 3,000 less than half of thirty years. In 1674 British established Royal African company to buy slaves in Africa to import them to the New World. The Dutch brought slaves to the Caribbean and South America and Ditch colony or New Amsterdam, later called New York, others to Virginia. In 1619 Africans were brought by a dutch slave ship to Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. John Rolfe introduced tobacco cultivation in Virginia. For more than a century, African slaves worked in the Carribbean and South America. It is also talked little about Christopher Columbus