How Did You Feel When Lizzy Left With Lem and Joshua?

I felt excited when Lizzy left with Lem and Joshua because hopefully she would escape to the Northern U.S. and be free. She wouldn't have to live on the plantation anymore and be whipped if she did something bad. Even though she had to leave her family, she did escape with Lem and Joshua, who were also her family. I think Lizzy was happy to be free because on p.58 she thinks to herself "It was what happened to her. She was free. It was a scary free, and it was a hungry free, and a tired free, but it was free" (p.58).

Character Trait for Muhammad

I chose the character trait determined because when Muhammad was in Live Oaks Planatation, he never thought of himself as a slave, he knew he was a man on p.15 " But every morning he would get up and say, I am a man! I am a man! " (p.15).

Slavery

Slaves have been used because they're cheaper than hired workers. For that reason, places like the Southern U.S. and Rome would typically have a free lower class that would have trouble finding work. They would become so poor that the way they live would be worse than the slaves.

Gullahs Who Escaped Slavery

The Black Seminoles are a small offshoot of the Gullah who escaped from the rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia. They built their own settlements on the Florida frontier, fought a series of wars to preserve their freedom, and were scattered across North America. Some Gullah slaves managed to escape from coastal South Carolina and Georgia south into the Florida peninsula.(http://www.yale.edu/glc/gullah/07.htm).