The document discusses George Washington and slavery, tobacco plantations, Phillis Wheatley's poetry, overseers on plantations, the biography of Olaudah Equiano, sugar production, different systems of slave labor, the spread of tobacco and sugar plantations, and taking a position on whether consumers of sugar and tobacco promoted slavery. It also provides writing prompts about visiting an imagined tobacco plantation and describing the task system of slave labor.

1.  Someone from
another country
asks you about
George
Washington. “Is
it true he was a
slave holder?”
How would you
answer this
question?

2.  Students will be
able to analyze
pictures and
original source
documents to
create an
explanation of
how tobacco
plantations
worked

3.  Read Phillis
Wheatley,
Poems on
Various
Subjects,
Religious, and
Moral, 1772

4.  The overseer
made sure the
work got done
 What does
overseer mean
in this context?

5.  The biography of
OlaudahEquiano is
an original source
document
 It was created by
someone who was
there when the
historic event
happened

6.  What was
boiled?
 Liquid from the
Sugar Tree
 Sugar Tree will
count but this is
a better answer

7.  Group of slaves
pushed by overseer
 Work from dawn to
dusk
 Brutal system
 Common in the
Caribbean

8.  Work until
your list of
jobs is done
 Possibly less
efficient
 Less brutal
 Left time for
slaves to tend
to their own
needs

9.  In the southern
colonies, as well as
Cuba
 The first plantations in
North America
 In response to the
demand for tobacco in
Europe

13.  People who used
sugar and tobacco
were guilty of
promoting and
benefitting from
slavery – yes or no
 Use 3 facts to make
your argument
 3 paragraph
minimum
 Clearly take a
position
 Use good grammar

14.  Read first person
accounts of life on a
tobacco plantation.
Answer questions.
Write an account of
a imagined visit to
such a plantation

15.  I have just arrived at
Franklin’s
Plantation, in Virginia.
My boss says that to
become a better
overseer, I need to
learn how other
plantations do things
 I am amazed how
easily these enormous
hogsheads get loaded
on the ships! These
slaves really know their
jobs!

16. What was
the task
system?
Answer on
the card
provided