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Slavery and the Making of AmericaPhoto of a group slaves on a Beaufort, South Carolina plantation
Time and Place Slave Memories Resources The Slave Experience

The Slave Experience: Responses to Enslavement
Intro Historical Overview Character Spotlight Slave Decisions Personal Narratives Original Docs
The Decisions Slaves Madereturn to introduction
Link to Cynthia Link to Slave Ship Robert Link to Josiah Henson Link to John Mason Link to William Grimes Link to Charles Ball
Slave Ship Robert

In 1721 the slave ship Robert sailed for North America carrying African men and women to be sold into bondage. Having already been torn from their homes and made to suffer the degrading conditions of captivity aboard the ship, these men and women could imagine the nightmare that lay ahead of them. 		Do you think they:

a. Acquiesced to their captors?
b. Staged a mutiny and rebelled against the ship's crew?
c. Refused to eat?

Outcome
 Illustration of African on deck of slave ship - Library of Congress

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