Please review this link of Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation (1450-1750)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVIHLD63BfE
After you watch the video, please take a moment to answer the questions in the comments section of the blog.
1. Make a list of the various groups of people who inhabited the early
Americas and American colonies. How might race, class, gender, national origin,
and other factors influence an individual's or a group's legal and economic
status?
2. Who benefited from the establishment of British colonies in the
Americas?
3. What kinds of hardships did the establishment of the colonies
create for Europeans, for Africans, and for Native Americans? What
opportunities did it create?
4. What made the enslavement of Africans in the
17th century different from previous forms of slavery? Discuss ways in which
Africans resisted enslavement. Give examples from the program of Africans
making alliances with other groups.
