Copper Sun Analysis by Sam McEwan https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj en-us 2023-05-15 13:15:39 UTC 2023-05-22 13:35:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Historical Article hortabaltazar3 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2593134507 Slaves in the 1700s, in the 1700's. The concept that every human being had fundamental rights did not apply. If you were an African American you could have been born in poverty and forced to work; instead of being treated as a person you were treated as property that could be sold and bought. African Americans were thought of as inferior compared to the Americans. They were sold across the sea; the travel across the sea takes several months, they were fed barely, and diseases were flying around constantly. Once reaching the colonies life was not any better, they had hours of backbreaking work every day for their entire life. Children would be born and sold soon after, which separated them from their parents. Slave owners had the right to punish their slaves. Any slaves who disobeyed had a major punishment which left the slaves scarred for life.]]> 2023-05-16 13:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2593134507 Meanings of slave songs mcewan31 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2593145390 Many songs were sung by slaves while working in the fields to boost morale while working, give the workers a rhythm to work to with the tempo of the song, and could even be used to communicate or announce messages to other slaves. The famous song "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" was used to indicate the slave singing was planning to escape, this song was a personal favorite of one of the significant figures of the underground railroad, and slave escape group, Harriet Tubman. The music speaks of a chariot riding across the sky, this could possibly relate to the salvation that the underground railroad brings to escaped slaves harriet tubman rescued during the civil war from their lives working in farms and slave owners houses.]]> 2023-05-16 13:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2593145390 Book Summary kosna2 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2593147743 The book starts with a girl named Amari, she lives in a village with her brother Kwasi, her mother, and her father. She is on the outskirts of her village with Kwasi, they play together until Besa, who which she is engaged with returns to the village. Kwasi and Amari hear from Besa that there are white people approaching. Amari and her tribe welcome these people and host a feast for them, but they soon betray Amari and her tribe. The white people kill most of the tribe except for a few, the white people take them to a castle. They are held there with other people from other tribes. Amari meets Afi who teaches her about everything that happens to them while they are at the castle. Soon they get transported out of the castle, branded, and get transported onto ships. These ships then take them to an island where they are held for a couple of days to make sure they don't have any viruses or illnesses. Then they get taken to another place where they get sold, Amari is sold to Mr.Derby as a birthday present for his son. Amari is then named Myna but chooses to be called Amari while she is not around Mr.Derby or Clay his son. At the plantation she meets Polly who is an indentured servant, Amari also meets Teenie and Tidbit. Teenie teaches Amari bout the plantation and what she will have to do. A few months later the book skips to where she has learned a lot of things, she and Polly also had to replace a waiter that was mourning the loss of her husband. During the time that Amari and Polly had to replace that waiter for one day, Amari makes a mistake while working for Mr.Derby and gets beat. After this Mrs. Derby had a child, the child was black. They tried to hide the child from Mr.Derby and say it died, which did not work. Mr.Derby found out that Noah, Mrs.Derby's slave, was the child's father. Mr.Derby killed both the child and Noah. Polly, Amari, and Tidbit were given to a doctor who had to sell them but the doctor didn't like slavery and let them escape. They ventured in the forest for weeks until they met Nathan, who let them stay in his barn for a day. Amari, Polly, and Tidbit went back to the forest until they met Fiona, she gives them a wagon, and this is also where Besa and Amari meet again. Besa refuses to go with them because he does not believe that a slave could be free. Polly, Amari, and Tidbit continue on without Besa and reach the Spanish territory where Amari finds out that she is pregnant with Clay's child.]]> 2023-05-16 13:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2593147743 Video of The Atlantic Slave Trade mcewan31 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2596282030 Shown above is a video that discusses the experiences and horrors many captured Africans were subject to on their long and difficult journey to the colonies as well as other parts of the world. This could relate to Copper Sun as the main character, Amari, is taken from her family and forced to face the dehumanization of the slave trade. She is brought onto a vessel and shipped across the ocean into the colonies, the reader is also able to see her experience the routine of sailors forcing slaves on board to dance on the deck to keep them active and tire them out to stop any possible rebellion.]]> 2023-05-18 13:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2596282030 Artwork hortabaltazar3 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2596301129 The copper sun represents freedom and home within the book. The person reaching for the sun stands as Amari and Polly trying to reach freedom.]]> 2023-05-18 13:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2596301129 Representation mcewan31 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2596302920 During the story, the main characters escape from the bondage and abuse they experienced at the rice plantation, running away on foot through swamps, and forests, and eventually to their salvation, a question arises pertaining to how accurate this series of events actually is. Many slaves during this time did attempt to escape, however, the rate of slaves attaining freedom is quite slim, with an estimate of approximately 1000 slaves per year gaining refuge. ]]> 2023-05-18 13:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2596302920 Primary Source hortabaltazar3 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2597646281 This is a slave narrative from the 1700s. Written by Briton Hammon a native american man. This contains Briton Hammon hardships from when he escaped his master to the time he returned to boston.]]> 2023-05-19 13:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2597646281 Historical Accuracy hortabaltazar3 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2597647842 The historical accuracy of Copper Sun is shown perfectly in the book. The book gets every detail on point and to perfection. Copper sun displaces the time 1700s accurately; and the life of a slave. Copper Sun shows how slaves were treated horribly and went through immense trauma; this is shown extremely accurately and shows how slaves were beaten, separated from their families, and put into hours of back-breaking work till death. Copper Sun was able to show the emotions of the characters insanely accurate and show hope, rage, and hope.]]> 2023-05-19 13:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2597647842 Citations hortabaltazar3 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2598018076 “A slave’s life – when people were property.” The Danish West-Indies, https://www.virgin-islands-history.org/en/history/slavery/a-slaves-life-when-people-were-property/. Accessed 19 May 2023. 
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]]> 2023-05-19 21:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2598018076 Theme and What the Reader Learned kosna2 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2599043236 The theme of this book is hope as you should never lose hope for a better future as that's what Amari did and she eventually did gain her freedom. What the reader learned from this book about the past is that for slaves their lives were bad as they would get beat often and didn't have a will of their own.]]> 2023-05-21 20:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2599043236 Companion Text (Address Unknown) kosna2 https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2599051200 Some similarities between Copper Sun and Address Unknown are that they both include people being where they shouldn't be as in Address Unknown Gazelle who is Jewish went to Germany while Germans didn't like Jews at all and got killed because she openly said that she was Jewish. Amari was taken from her home and taken to America where she didn't belong and she got her freedom but she lost a lot along the way. In Address Unknown the topic of the book is Germany during World War 2, and the topic of Copper Sun is about slaves and how they were treated from Amari's perspective.]]> 2023-05-21 21:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mcewan31/wi8xoun3nm310msj/wish/2599051200