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A Slave's Tale: Comparing Treatment by Africans and Europeans

Explore Olaudah Equiano's account from ca. 1750 to determine who treated slaves better: Africans or Europeans. Discover words like "besought," "intercede," "salutation," "scruple," and "avarice" in his narrative. Follow Equiano's journey as he spent a decade enslaved before earning freedom and sharing his story.

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A Slave's Tale: Comparing Treatment by Africans and Europeans

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  1. A Slave’s Story (ca. 1750)

  2. Essential Question:Which group treated their slaves better, Africans or Europeans?

  3. Vocabulary:Highlight the following words in your text: • Paragraph 2 – “Besought” Desperately asked • Prg. 5 – “Intercede” work on behalf of • Prg. 7 – “Salutation” greeting • Prg. 14 – “Scruple” morals • Prg. 15 -- “Avarice” greed

  4. Marking the text As you read, mark the text when you see examples of the following in Equiano’s account: “GT” for instances of Good Treatment “BT” for instances of Bad Treatment “TN” for instances of Treatment that was neither good nor bad.

  5. OlaudahEquiano • Equiano spent around ten years as a slave • Eventually he earned his freedom • He educated himself and wrote his account of his life in slavery in 1789

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