WTK S1:E7 “Slavery: Did Everyone Who Came to America Want to Come?”

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Historian Arch Hunter & Author Lydia Nuttall talk about Forgotten American Stories & The WTK Liberty Player Kids With Billy Eagle and Colonel John Eidsmoe!

Questions:

1. In addition to Africans, what other groups of people were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean and sold as slaves in the Americas?

2. Why was it important for America to become free and independent from the government of Great Britain before America could progress toward the abolishment of slavery?

3. Of all the men, women, and children enslaved between 1519–1867, did the majority of them come to North America?

4. Is slavery unique to America?

5. What are the 6 Steps that America took to progress toward the eradication of slavery?

6. What groups of people fought for the freedom of slaves in the American Civil War?

7. Why did so many nationalities and ethnic groups all fight alongside each other?

8. How many soldiers died in the Civil War?

9. Even though it is illegal, is slavery still practiced today in America?