The past two days in class, we focused on slavery and how slaves escaped their horrendous predicament. In the early stages of slavery, slaves worked on plantations that farmed cotton, tobacco, rice and other crops. However, when the cotton gin was introduced, the plantation owners focused their attention on cotton, as they could produce more at a time thus making the production more profitable and making the slave owners wealthier. Today we learner about the emancipation, or freeing, of slaves. Most slaves wanted freedom from thei masters, and some, in order to obtain this freedom, ran away. While some did it independently, others relied on the Underground Railroad, which was a system that transported slaves from the south to the free north. Along the trail, there were many stops where black slaves could stay on their journey. These houes were owned by abolitionists, people that wanted to end slavery.


My goal is not going so well. I often find myself feeling that sleep is more important.

The past two days in class we have been talking about slavery. Yesterday, we focused on two actual accounts of slavery; one being from a slave girl, and the other from Olaudah Equiano. The account of the girl is much nicer than Olaudah's story. The girl was a slave, but her master was kind, and her father was in relation to her. He knew where she was, and how she was doing. Olaudah was a child soldier, and then take onto a slave ship and later sold as a slave. He was treated very poorly; he was beaten, forced to eat, and chained together with other slaves. He could not escape for fear of surviving and having a far worse punishment than death. Today in class, we focused on supporters and opponents of slavery. The supporters were both government officials from the south that had some degree of education. The opponents of slavery were poor, not formally educated, and did not hold government positions. They were from middle-east to northern states.

My goal is to stretch at least once a day.

Today in class we watched a voicethread on the paintings and artwork of the American Revolution. Many of the artwork symbollically represented the Revolution, such as aWatson and the Shark. It represented Britain (the shark) and Watson (the colonies) struggling for the advantage. The loss of Watson's leg symbolized the breaking away from Britain, and the outcome was to show that both would be prosperous.

Today in class we talked about the draft of the Constitution. The Constitution basically was a list of reasons why America was breaking away from Britain. This included unfair laws, no representation, and many others.