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Copper Sun is a book that has many minor and or side characters and only a handful of important ones and even then there are many traits that these characters have that colloid with the expectation of the time. The easiest and most prominent of the bunch is our main charterer, Amari, Amari is a strong-willed sprite who despite being knocked down can always finds strength through the memory of her desist family. This is clearly something that challenges the expectation of the time, Amari is sold as a slave and is expected to be submissive and obedient, Amari is also very intelligent and clever despite her illiteracy. On the other hand, there are some side characters that add complexity to the main narrative, two of these being Mr. Derby and his son Clay Darby. Throughout the story, the book does not into depth with the characters and they act as foils to the main cast and story.

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what the boats looked like with the slave put right next to one another. 

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There are many scenes in Copper Sun that show accurate historical details. For example, one is when Amari was taken from her home to the United States to be sold. They were all squished right next to each other. There were different levels of people so the people on the bottom had urine, throwup, and other nasty things on them. In the book, they also have a man be super kind to Amari, he helped her to learn some English and made sure she had food. But, most of the time the men were not that kind to them. I don't think that was a mistake though I think they put that in their to show that not everyone was for slavery.

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Another book similar to Copper Sun is Night by Elie Wiesel. Both books include examples of dehumanization and discrimination. While Night is about the Holocaust and Copper Sun is about slavery, both demonstrate the hardships of dehumanizing experiences.

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Copper Sun is a good representation of slavery. Just reading the book alone can help a reader understand slavery extremely better. However, since the book is fiction, some of the events would most likely not happen. But the overall representation of what a slaves journey, and life on a plantation, is very accurate. It demonstrates the hardships like assault, sexual violence, and the mental blocks that slaves would go through. It represents what traveling on a boat through the middle passage was like, as well as what the biding and selling of a slave was like. This book shows readers the sad truth of what slavery was, and why it should never be brought back.

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This is a primary source of a Newspaper advertisement from the 1780s. It was for a sale of slaves at Ashley Ferry from South Carolina. It shares about slaves with smallpox and slaves that can be sold.

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Slave Art

The Slave Market is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. It depicts a North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a female slave. The painting was bought by Adolphe Goupil on 23 August 1866 and exhibited at the Salon in 1867
It was a groundbreaking piece of art. It showed the true horror of slavery and it was a trailblazer for its time.

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Neil

There is almost no historical inaccuracy in the copper sun except there are no copper heads in South Carolina. So Clay and the slaves in the pool would have not been bitten by the copperhead. Other than that the only inaccuracy is that the events would be very highly unlikely. First of all, an escaped slave would not get caught, the sailors usually do not help the slaves, there were almost no mixed children, and it took them more than a month to get to Florida but on maps, it takes less than a week.

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In the book Copper Sun by, Sharon Draper, a girl named Amari lives in a little village with her people in Africa. She had an amazing life with her family and she was about to get married to a guy named Besa. Until one day they found out that there were some unknown people coming to their village so they decided to throw them a party to welcome them. Not too long into the party, the unknown people started attacking them and shooting their people. Amari looked around and all her family was dead and she was put into handcuffs. They were then all hooked together and had to walk very long, with very little water and food. All Amari could think about was how she had nothing left all her family was gone and her whole village was burnt down. Finally, they got to this new place but Amari doesn't know where it is and she is locked up with a bunch of women. There are a lot of different languages being spoken but she finds one girl named Afi who speaks her language, she took care of Amari, made sure she was well-fed, and was very kind to her. Another woman starts trying to explain to all of the women why they are there because they are all going to be sold as slaves. Then they are taken out to this beach area and are boarded onto a boat. They are on these boats for days and days, cramped next to one another, and have very little food and water. Many of the people died on the journey to the United States. While on the boat there was a red-headed man who would help Amari, he was very kind to her. He would help her to learn English so she could understand what they were saying, she caught on pretty quickly. Once they made it to the United States they were then sold, Amari was sold to a man named Mr.Derby. There was another new girl who worked there named Polly who was new as well. Polly at first didn't like Amari and didn't understand why her first assignment was to teach her English she just wanted to work in the main house. There were also a mom and a son who were slaves as well, Tidbit and Teenie. Every night Mr. Derby's son, Clay, would take Amari into his room late at night Amari always hated it she hoped for the day it would stop. One day Mr.Derby's wife Mrs.Derby was about to have her baby and the doctor wasn't there yet so Mr.Derby asked Polly and Amari if they could deliver the baby and they said yes. When Amari delivered the baby the baby was black and they knew that if Mr.Derby saw he would kill them all. Mrs.Derby said that she had been in love with their slave named Noah for a long time and so it was his baby. So they planned to tell Mr.Derby that she had a miscarriage but then hide the baby with Polly and Amari. But Clay found out and told his dad so Mr.Derby killed Noah and the baby right in front of Mrs.Derby and said he was going to sell Amari and Polly was don't working for him. So when the doctor finally arrived and he was told by Mr.Derby to take them back. While they were on the road back he stopped and told him that he didn't believe in slavery and that he would give them a chance to escape but it wouldn't be an easy journey. So they then set off to the South to Fort Mose, which they heard about from a friend and there you can be free. Their journey was very rough and they had many challenges. One example of having a hard time is, " The alligator, close to ten feet long, moved with unbelievable speed, but Polly was even faster. She shrieked and scrambled away up the riverbank. The sound of the alligator's jaws snapping together on nothing but air encouraged all three of them to run wildly into the edge of the woods." (280). There were times when they were caught, then helped, and then betrayed, but somehow they made it. When they got there the people were very welcoming and they helped Amari Polly and Tidbit find a way they could help in their little village. Then Amari found out she was pregnant she was very nervous at first but then realized everything will be ok. I think the theme of this story is to persevere and not lose hope. Amari and a lot of the other characters went through so many difficult challenges, but they never gave up no matter how hard it was. For example, Draper writes, "'No. I have not. I have been raped. I have been beaten. I have been made to feel like I am nothing. But I live."' (257). Readers can learn a lot from hearing what has happened in the past. For example, by reading this book it can educate you to know how wrong it was that slaves were a thing and how unfairly they were treated.

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This is an article on the time period from the 17th century to the 18th century. It goes over many topics including early slavery, the history of slavery, slave rebellions, and more issues brought upon slavery. This article shows some background knowledge of slavery. It can help with learning more things about slavery in Copper Sun. And knowing how it came to be, how long it has been around, etc.

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When Did Slavery Start in America?

In the 17th and 18th centuries, enslaved Africans worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast, from the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Maryland and Virginia south to Georgia.

After the American Revolution, many colonists-particularly in the North, where slavery was relatively unimportant to the agricultural economy-began to link the oppression of enslaved Africans to their own oppression by the British, and to call for slavery's abolition.

Did you know? One of the first martyrs to the cause of American patriotism was Crispus Attucks, a former enslaved man who was killed by British soldiers during the Boston Massacre of 1770. Some 5,000 Black soldiers and sailors fought on the American side during the Revolutionary War.

But after the Revolutionary War, the new U.S. Constitution tacitly acknowledged the institution of slavery, when it valued each enslaved individual as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation in Congress. The Constitution's drafters also guaranteed the right to repossess any "person held to service or labor" (an obvious euphemism for slavery).

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work in the production of crops such as tobacco and cotton.

By the mid-19th century, America's westward expansion and the abolition movement provoked a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody Civil War. Though the Union victory freed the nation's four million enslaved people, the legacy of slavery continued to influence American history, from the Reconstruction to the civil rights movement that emerged a century after emancipation and beyond.

Cotton Gin

In the late 18th century, with the land used to grow tobacco nearly exhausted, the South faced an economic crisis, and the continued growth of slavery in America seemed in doubt.

Around the same time, the mechanization of the textile industry in England led to a huge demand for American cotton, a southern crop whose production was limited by the difficulty of removing the seeds from raw cotton fibers by hand.

But in 1793, a young Yankee schoolteacher named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple mechanized device that efficiently removed the seeds. His device was widely copied, and within a few years, the South transitioned from the large-scale production of tobacco to that of cotton, a switch that reinforced the region's dependence on enslaved labor.

Slavery itself was never widespread in the North, though many of the region's businessmen grew rich on the slave trade and investments in southern plantations. Between 1774 and 1804, most of the northern states abolished slavery or started the process to abolish slavery, but the institution of slavery remained vital to the South.

Though the U.S. Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808, the domestic trade flourished, and the enslaved population in the United States nearly tripled over the next 50 years. By 1860 it had reached nearly 4 million, with more than half living in the cotton-producing states of the South.

Living Conditions of Enslaved People

Enslaved people in the antebellum South constituted about one-third of the southern population. Most lived on large plantations or small farms; many masters owned fewer than 50 enslaved people.

Landowners sought to make their enslaved completely dependent on them through a system of restrictive codes. They were usually prohibited from learning to read and write, and their behavior and movement were restricted.

Many masters raped enslaved women, and rewarded obedient behavior with favors, while rebellious enslaved people were brutally punished. A strict hierarchy among the enslaved (from privileged house workers and skilled artisans down to lowly field hands) helped keep them divided and less likely to organize against their masters.

Marriages between enslaved men and women had no legal basis, but many did marry and raise large families. Most owners of enslaved workers encouraged this practice, but nonetheless did not usually hesitate to divide families by sale or removal.

Slave Rebellions

Rebellions among enslaved people did occur-notably, ones led by Gabriel Prosser in Richmond in 1800 and by Denmark Vesey in Charleston in 1822-but few were successful.

The revolt that most terrified enslavers was that led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831. Turner's group, which eventually numbered around 75 Black men, murdered some 55 white people in two days before armed resistance from local white people and the arrival of state militia forces overwhelmed them.

Supporters of slavery pointed to Turner's rebellion as evidence that Black people were inherently inferior barbarians requiring an institution such as slavery to discipline them. And fears of similar insurrections led many southern states to further strengthen their slave codes in order to limit the education, movement and assembly of enslaved people.

Abolitionist Movement

In the North, the increased repression of southern Black people only fanned the flames of the growing abolitionist movement.

From the 1830s to the 1860s, the movement to abolish slavery in America gained strength, led by free Black people such as Frederick Douglass and white supporters such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the radical newspaper The Liberator, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, who published the bestselling antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

While many abolitionists based their activism on the belief that slaveholding was a sin, others were more inclined to the non-religious "free-labor" argument, which held that slaveholding was regressive, inefficient and made little economic sense.

Free Black people and other antislavery northerners had begun helping enslaved people escape from southern plantations to the North via a loose network of safe houses as early as the 1780s. This practice, known as the Underground Railroad, gained real momentum in the 1830s.

Conductors like Harriet Tubmanguided escapees on their journey North, and " stationmasters" included such prominent figures as Frederick Douglass, Secretary of State William H. Seward and Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Althoughestimates vary widely, it may have helped anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 enslaved people reach freedom.

The success of the Underground Railroad helped spread abolitionist feelings in the North. It also undoubtedly increased sectional tensions, convincing pro-slavery southerners of their northern countrymen's determination to defeat the institution that sustained them.

Missouri Compromise

America's explosive growth-and its expansion westward in the first half of the 19th century-would provide a larger stage for the growing conflict over slavery in America and its future limitation or expansion.

In 1820, a bitter debate over the federal government's right to restrict slavery over Missouri's application for statehood ended in a compromise: Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state and all western territories north of Missouri's southern border were to be free soil.

Although the Missouri Compromise was designed to maintain an even balance between slave and free states, it was only temporarily able to help quell the forces of sectionalism.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

In 1850, another tenuous compromise was negotiated to resolve the question of slavery in territories won during the Mexican-American War.

Four years later, however, the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened all new territories to slavery by asserting the rule of popular sovereignty over congressional edict, leading pro- and anti-slavery forces to battle it out-with considerable bloodshed-in the new state of Kansas.

Outrage in the North over the Kansas-Nebraska Act spelled the downfall of the old Whig Party and the birth of a new, all-northern Republican Party. In 1857, the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court (involving an enslaved man who sued for his freedom on the grounds that his master had taken him into free territory) effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by ruling that all territories were open to slavery.

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

In 1859, two years after the Dred Scott decision, an event occurred that would ignite passions nationwide over the issue of slavery.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia-in which the abolitionist and 22 men, including five Black men and three of Brown's sons raided and occupied a federal arsenal-resulted in the deaths of 10 people and Brown's hanging.

The insurrection exposed the growing national rift over slavery: Brown was hailed as a martyred hero by northern abolitionists but was vilified as a mass murderer in the South.

Civil War

The South would reach the breaking point the following year, when Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as president. Within three months, seven southern states had seceded to form the Confederate States of America; four more would follow after the Civil War began.

Though Lincoln's anti-slavery views were well established, the central Union war aim at first was not to abolish slavery, but to preserve the United States as a nation.

Abolition became a goal only later, due to military necessity, growing anti-slavery sentiment in the North and the self-emancipation of many people who fled enslavement as Union troops swept through the South.

When Did Slavery End?

On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation, and on January 1, 1863, he made it official that "slaves within any State, or designated part of a State...in rebellion,...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."

By freeing some 3 million enslaved people in the rebel states, the Emancipation Proclamation deprived the Confederacy of the bulk of its labor forces and put international public opinion strongly on the Union side.

Though the Emancipation Proclamation didn't officially end all slavery in America-that would happen with the passage of the 13th Amendment after the Civil War's end in 1865-some 186,000 Black soldiers would join the Union Army, and about 38,000 lost their lives.

The Legacy of Slavery

The 13th Amendment, adopted on December 18, 1865, officially abolished slavery, but freed Black peoples' status in the post-war South remained precarious, and significant challenges awaited during the Reconstruction period.

Previously enslaved men and women received the rights of citizenship and the "equal protection" of the Constitution in the 14th Amendment and the right to vote in the 15th Amendment, but these provisions of the Constitution were often ignored or violated, and it was difficult for Black citizens to gain a foothold in the post-war economy thanks to restrictive Black codes and regressive contractual arrangements such as sharecropping.

Despite seeing an unprecedented degree of Black participation in American political life, Reconstruction was ultimately frustrating for African Americans, and the rebirth of white supremacy-including the rise of racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)-had triumphed in the South by 1877.

Almost a century later, resistance to the lingering racism and discrimination in America that began during the slavery era led to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which achieved the greatest political and social gains for Black Americans since Reconstruction.

America's First Memorial to its 4,400 Lynching Victims

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U.S. Slavery: Timeline, Figures & Abolition | HISTORY

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Slavery in America was the legal institution of enslaving human beings, mainly Africans and African Americans. Slavery existed in the United States from its founding in 1776 and became the main cause behind the country's bloody Civil War. Slavery officially ended in America with the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War's end in 1865.