Slavery During The American Revolution by Maya Goodwin https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s Maya Goodwin en-us 2019-01-25 18:50:08 UTC 2025-10-23 00:10:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Image Source: NCPEDIA mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/326769246 This is primary source. It is a painting of a black sailor during the Revolutionary War. This is a good source to use when learning about slavery and the American Revolution because it displays a black rebel sailor, who played a big part in changing the Revolutionary War as they fought for their own freedom. ]]> 2019-02-01 16:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/326769246 Article & Image Source: History Is Fun mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/326777097 This is a primary source. It is a painting of George Washington during the Revolutionary War.  This is a good source to use when learning about The Revolutionary War because General George Washington led the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War which would lead to him becoming the first president of the United States of America. ]]> 2019-02-01 16:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/326777097 Video Source & Article Source: History.com mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330437875 This is a primary source. It is both a video and an article source. The video source is about life on a slave ship. This is a good source to use when learning about slavery because it gives information and a video on life aboard slave ships. ]]> 2019-02-12 17:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330437875 Article Source & Image Source: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330482413 This is a secondary source. The image is of two rebels during the battle of Yorktown.  I learned about how slaves joined the rebels and fought for freedom. This is a good source when learning about the Revolutionary War because it gives multiple images of reenactments that took place during the Revolutionary War.]]> 2019-02-12 18:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330482413 Image Source & Article Source: Revolutionary War Network mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330620519 This is a secondary source. The picture displays the journey of a slave from plantation life to the struggle for liberty.  I learned about the journey that slaves went through in order to be free. This is a good source when learning about slavery because it gives information about a slaves journey. Most slaves went through similar experiences. ]]> 2019-02-13 00:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330620519 Image Source & Article Source: Ducksters mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330629401 This is a secondary source. This is an image of Crispus Attikus, a famous black patriot during The American Revolution, and the first man killed in the Boston Massacre. I learned that many African Americans joined militias and protested the British. This is a good source when learning about the Revolutionary War because it gives information on each historical figure and what they accomplished during the Revolutionary War.]]> 2019-02-13 01:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330629401 Article Source: PBS mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330630551 This is a secondary source. While reading this source, I learned all about the  battles, generals, and locations of the Revolutionary War. This is a good source to use when learning about the Revolutionary War because it gives lots of geographical information on the battles that took place there.]]> 2019-02-13 01:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330630551 Image Source: Atlanta Black Star mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330631976 This is a primary source. This is an image of slaves being inspected for sale. This is a good source when learning about slavery because slaves had to endure humiliating inspections at every slave auction before they were sold. ]]> 2019-02-13 01:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330631976 Introduction mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330632736   My book is called Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. Chains is about a girl named Isabel, and her younger sister Ruth. They are slaves during the Revolutionary War that were sold at a slave auction to Anne and Elihu Lockton, two rich merchants from Britain who live in Manhattan, New York . In their new home, Isabel works in the kitchen and Ruth works as Mrs. Lockton's personal servant. The Locktons are cruel and abuse Isabel, Ruth, and the other slaves that they own by beating and whipping them with Mr. Lockton's leather whip. The girls realize they need to escape, but before they can, the Locktons ship Ruth off to Charleston, South Carolina.  Meanwhile, Isabel befriends another slave named Curzon, who is also treated badly by his owner, and together, he and Isabel escape slavery and head out to try to find Ruth.

Slavery
Slavery was a big part of the Revolutionary War. Slaves were purchased at auction, just as Isabel and Ruth were, to work for their masters.  Some slaves worked in fields, some worked in restaurants and bars, some  took care of children, and some worked around the house as personal servants, maids, and kitchen cooks. Isabel and Ruth were no exception. Most of the slave owners were very cruel to their slaves, just as the Lockton family were to Isabel and Ruth in Chains. Most slaves were not allowed to read or write. Slaves that did not follow their orders were punished. Much like what Isabel and Ruth experienced, most punishments consisted of whipping and hitting. Slavery during the Revolutionary War forbid slaves to have weapons because people were afraid the slaves would use them to fight their own battle, and no punishment could stop that. In 1865, 82 years after the end of the Revolutionary War, slavery was finally abolished, and all of the slaves were free.


]]> 2019-02-13 01:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330632736 Works Cited mayag2025 https://padlet.com/mayag2025/nzmhmfr70k2s/wish/330648459 PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr4.html.

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“American Revolution.” Ducksters Educational Site, Technological Solutions, Inc., www.ducksters.com/history/american_revolution/african_americans_revolutionary_war.php.
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“Fighting... Maybe for Freedom, but Probably Not.” Terms of Estrangement: Who Were the Sons of Liberty? : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History & Citizenship Site, www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn07/slaves.cfm.

“Slavery and the Revolutionary War.” The American Revolutionary War, www.revolutionary-war.net/slavery-and-the-revolutionary-war.html.

Tracy. “What the Institution of Slavery Meant for The Shaping of American Culture.” Atlanta Black 
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