Moses Roper faced extreme adversity during his time as a slave. He was brutally beaten and tortured on a consistent basis and demeaned to a point that would break the average person, however not Roper. Separated from his mother at the age of six, Roper became determined to reunite with his family while attempting to break free from the shackles of slavery. Roper was taken from his birthplace of North Carolina by a man named Mr Sneed. Sneed had difficulty selling Roper as he had descended from a white father and half white mother, so he traded Roper to Mr Michael, a man who made a living by purchasing slaves in northern territory and bringing them further south to sell. Roper moved between different slave owners and traders until he was finally sold to a man named Mr Hodge. At the time, the narrative was meant to show the American people of the horrors of slavery and to make an argument for the freedom of all people. Today, Roper’s narrative allows for a deeper understanding of the physical, emotional, and mental effects the institution of slavery had on those enslaved, allowing for more extensive studies of tis stain on the history of the United States of America.

Hodge soon sold Roper to a slave master named Mr Gooch who owned a plantation in Cashaw County, South Carolina. Mr Gooch was a very cruel slave master who immediately began to beat Roper when he was unable to complete the unreasonable tasks that were bestowed upon him. While with Mr Gooch, Roper determined that he was around the age of thirteen. It was at this age, after being threatened by floggings for an uncontrollable mistake, Roper made his first of many attempts to escape. Escaping from slavery was highly dangerous and could result in the severe injury and death of a slave. 

SOURCES
https://blogs.dickinson.edu/hist-117pinsker/2016/12/09/the-life-and-escape-of-moses-roper-revised/

- Philyra Kwan

Describe their experience of slavery in a 4 - 6 sentence paragraph response:

Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in 1729. He spent his first 2 years as a slave in Grenada located in the caribbean. His mother died when he was very young, and not soon after, his father killed himself rather that living a life as a slave. His new owner then took him to England, were he worked as a slave in Greenwich and then worked for The Duke of Montagu. In his youth, he taught himself how to read and write, to speak against the slave trade. He passed away in 1780, London, United Kingdom. After he passed, his letters were published in a book and became popular. His writing was used as evidence to support and end slavery. 

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3. Died: 14 December 1780, London, United Kingdom

2.    When he was two he was brought over to England. He was then given to the man’s three maiden sisters in Greenwich to work as a servant. The sisters had treated Sancho poorly it was noted that they were far from kind. Sancho had written “The first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience” 

 3.    He then had met the John Montagu and took a liking by his “native frankness of manner”.  Sancho kept visiting the Duke and Duchess of Montagu regularly, where he had learnt to read and write. He then left the sisters and served in the Montagu household as a butler for 20 years. After marrying a West Indian woman, the Duke and Duchess of Montagu gave Sancho money which enabled him to buy his own grocery shop, leaving his domestic services.

Describe their experience of slavery in a 4 - 6 sentence paragraph response:
Ignatius Sancho’s experience of slavery was difficult to go through. After both his parent died when he was very young, he was just an orphan who had to live and deal with being a slave. He was owned by a British when he was two and was then was given to the man’s three maiden sisters to become a slave, where they were all unkind, Sancho quoted “the first part of my life was rather unlucky, I was placed in a family who judged ignorance…”. Sancho was then lucky enough to have been encouraged to be educated and be given books to read from John Montagu, the 2nd Duke of Montagu. After leaving the sisters he became The Montagu Household butler for 20 years. After marrying a West Indian woman, the Duke and Duchess gave Sancho money, meaning that he was free from the domestic services. Overall, Ignatius Sancho’s experiences of being a slave was like any other African slaves who have been in his position from the beginning, but he has worked his way up to become a well – educated and successful writer and composer. Also becoming the first African to have voted in a British General Election. 

Sources:
https://www.bl.uk/people/ignatius-sancho 
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/letters-of-the-late-ignatius-sancho-an-african-1784/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sancho-ignatius-1729-1780/

-He became a well known composer, actor, and writer

-He became the first the first African to vote in parliamentary elections in Britain  

Ignatius Sancho was given birth to on a slave ship in 1729, and was soon enslaved in Grenada. A biography written by Joseph Jekyll suggest that his mother died when he was an infant after arriving at the Spanish West Indies and his father took his own life rather than living as a slave, and so Sancho became an orphan. He was soon taken to Greenwich, London around the age of two to serve three sisters as a slave. During this time he met John Montagu (the inventor of the sandwich) who inspired and encouraged Sancho to have an education, and he supplied him with books to read. When montage died in 1749, Sancho ran away and persuaded Montagu’s widow Mary to employ him as a butler after she died in 1751 he then served George Montagu. After he left the Montagu’s house he met and married his wife Anne Osborne, a West Indian whom he had seven children with. As Sancho was a financially independent male, he was given consent to vote in 1774, and did so again just before his death in 1780, which made him the first person with an African origin to vote. In 1766 he built a friend ship with Laurence Sterne, a novelist, to support the movement of abolishment in slavery. As Sterne published the letters Sanchos would write to him, it brought Sanchos into the public. After the death of Sancho, the letters were collected and published in 1782 as “The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African” which sold well and reached a large amount of readership. 

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Moses Roper's experience as a slave 

Moses Roper was the son of an American farmer of English ancestry, who was the master of Roper. As an adolescence, Roper was sold and traded many times from his family to other slave traders. Roper mentioned in his biography that he was very difficult to sell due to his almost-white complexion and his resemblance of his father.  

He faced extreme adversity during his time as a slave. Roper suffered from brutal punishment and torture on a consistent basis. Separated from his mother at 6, Roper was determined to reunite with his family while attempting for countless times to escape the chains of slavery from 1829 to 1834, resulting him being severely flogged every time after a failed attempt. This constant pain did not make Roper less determined to achieve his ultimate goal of freedom.

Roper finally succeeded to escape in 1834, and in the following year, he reached the shore of Liverpool, where slavery was banned a year ago. "My feelings when I first touched the shores of Britain were indescribable." Roper wrote in his journal. His  biography was published in 1837, recorded with his  life experience. 

 

Sources: 

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/roper/summary.html
http://www.roperld.com/ropermoses.htm

 

-      He was born on a slave ship in 1729 and his mother died when he was 2 and his dad committed suicide to avoid being enslaved and he was raised as an orphan.

-      He was enslaved in a house in Greenwich to 3 sisters from the age of 2 to when he was an adult, he made friends with the 2^ndduke of Montagu and then he passed away and so he worked for his widow and then the 1^stduke of Montagu for 42 years all together.

-      He got married in 1758 to Anne Osborne, a west Indian Women, they had seven children, he then left the Montagu house and the opened a grocery store together in west minster and he then became the first person of African descent to vote in a British election.

 

Ignatious Sancho was born on a slave ship in 1729 on route from Guinea to the Spanish West Indies. He was born in Africa, he grew up an orphan, his mother died when he was an infant, his father committed suicide to avoid slavery. At about the age of two he was taken to London where he was forced to work as a slave for three sisters at a house in Greenwich. When he was an adult he wrote “the first part of my life was rather unlucky, as I was placed in a family who judged ignorance the best and only security for obedience”, he then met the 2^ndduke of Montagu, John Montagu, who encouraged his education, he gave him books to read. The duke then died, and Sancho ran away from the house he worked at and asked to work for the duke’s widow. He worked there for 20 years as a butler until the Duchess’s death in 1751 and then as a valet to the 1^stduke of Montagu, George Montague, until 1773. 

-Describe 3 significant events from their life

1, mary prince was born into the life of a slave 

2,mary became part of a local anti-slavery society that petitioned parliament june 1829 to grant her manuinism. 

3, mary becomes and abolitionist and leaves the current family she served because of her resistance to the abusive treatment she was getting.

Describe their experience of slavery in a 4-6 sentence paragraph response

Mary prince had a similar experience to her life as a slave as any other slave would she faced being taken away from her family abused verbally and physically. As a child Mary Prince says that she was very happy as she did not yet know or realise what kind of future she was destined to have and the conditions she later faced. What made mary significant to other slaves was her determination and perseverance to end slavery and earn a life she chose to have. And for those reasons Mary Prince would fight back against her “owners” and refuse to do their dirty work.

3 Sources 

1, https://padlet.com/evie_menhinick1/91lbpnc7qwye

2,  https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/summary.html

3,https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GJLabye7oyijPFBoJ1aI66-jcvu1IpbVqG1KyFcBsNQ/edi

Mary’s experience of slavery was very turbulent. Over the years she has had many different owners however they all treated her with little to no respect and treated her like an animal she went "from one butcher to another". Then in the next few years she met Daniel James a free carpenter at church and without the permission of her owner she married him. The punishment she faced for her rebellious actions were extremely cruel and violet Mary was horsewhipped. However this was not the only abuse she suffered from the owners Mary was also locked in a cage and beaten therefore preventing her from working for several months. After this she was found her the owners neighbours and when Mary asked to buy her freedom her request was denied. Overall Mary’s time as a slave was horrendous and the manner in which she was treated was unforgivable.