The life you live is no doubt a thankless one. Chances are, you don't own any land, but spend your days and nights working on land that someone else owns. You are told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it by someone every day. You may have been born on the farm or in the home that you work in, or you may have been brought to the colonies. It may be against your will, or you may have struck a deal with someone to work for a few years in exchange for land and freedom. As a slave or indentured servant, you are the worker that makes things happen on those big farms and fancy houses. With any luck, you may find a kind master or owner who treats you well. Or you may not be so lucky.

What we want to know for your "Who's Who?" page is what your life is like! Using the web pages provided, and the book you check out of the library, answer all of the questions at the bottom of this page. You need to answer all of them, and give as much detail as you can.   If you find interesting information that isn't in these questions, feel free to add it!

First, the websites you will use:

General Websites about Life in Colonial America:

Topic	Website	What you can find here.
Colonial Life	Life In Colonial America	Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia; Article about life in Colonial America.
	The Founder of Rhode Island	An article about the founding of Rhode Island, one of the New England colonies.
	William Penn	An article about William Penn, who founded Pennsylvania in the Mid-Atlantic colonies.
	The founder of Jamestown	An article about the founding of Jamestown, one of the Southern colonies.
	Occupations and Customs in Colonial America	Information about Colonial America occupations and customs.
	Religion and Education in Colonial America	Information about Colonial America religion and education.
	People and Society in Colonial America	Information about the people and societies of Colonial America.
	The religious reasons	Some religious reasons for people settling in the colonies.
	Colonial Information Articles	A lot of articles on different topics dealing with Colonial America.
	America's Story	Colonial America information
	A hard journey	All about the passage to America for the first colonists.

Websites about Slavery and the Slave Trade:

Topic	Website	What you can find here.
Slavery in Colonial America	The Slave Trade	Information on the Slave trade to North  America
	Slavery	An essay on slavery in America
	Plantation Life	Information about plantation life for a slave.
	Slavery:  Food and Clothing	Information about the food and clothing granted to slaves.
	Slavery:  Housing	Information about the housing that slaves lived in.
	Slavery: Separation from Loved Ones	Information about the slave trade and how it separated loved ones.
	Slavery:  Religion	Information about the religion practiced by slaves.
	Slavery in Colonial Times	Colonial Williamsburg's site about the slave's introduction to the colonies.
Plantation Life	Plantation Article	A primary source account about life on a plantation.

Answer these questions. Use the websites that are provided, and the book you check out during your assigned library time (along with any other books you may find).

1. What is your name? Are you married? Do you have children? If so, how many? Do you work and live as a tenant on someone else's land, or are you the "property" of a large landowner?

2. Where do you live? Do you live in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, or Southern colonies?

3. How did you get to the colonies? Were you born here, or did you travel here from another country?

4. Tell us about your journey here. If you were brought here, what was the trip like?   Were you captured or "sold"   from your home country?   Tell us about your experience.   What was your voyage like?   How were you treated?   Did you travel with family or were you separated?

5. If you are an "indentured servant"   and are working for your freedom and land, how long have you been working for your "master?"   How are you treated?   Do you think you are treated better, worse, or the same than a slave?   How many years do you have to work before you are free or receive your land?

6. Do you have any special skills or do you perform certain special jobs? What types of things can you do? If you don't have any special skills, what is your job? Do you work on a large plantation farm, on a small farm, or inside a house? Wherever you may live, what is your job?

7. Who is in charge of you during the day? Do you have a boss or "foreman" that tells you what to do? Are you the only slave where you are, or are there others?  What types of jobs do those around you do?

8. What is your owner or master like? Is he nice, mean, strict, or somewhere in between? Do slaves where you live and work get punished for the things they do? Are you or others treated badly? What types of things have you seen happen around you, or what types of things have happened to you?

9. What are your living conditions like? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? Are you friends with the people around you? Do you practice religion of any sort?

10. Do you have family, and if you do, do you get to see them? Do they work on the same land or for the same person that you do? If you are separated from them, do you know where they are? Do you have plans to try to reunite with them?

10. What is the society like around you? Do you have a lot of friends or neighbors? Is everyone very "proper" and well dressed? Do you and your family attend any social events, like parties or balls?

11.   How are you treated by the other people in your society? Are you looked up to, and respected? Do people look down at you? Are you treated unfairly, badly, well, or normally by those in the colonies around you? Does this affect your life, and how?

12.   Is there anything else that people reading this book should know about your life as a slave?

13. Finally, describe a typical day in YOUR life, from the time you wake up in the morning until you go to sleep at night. Discuss the things you do, things you must prepare to do your job, what types of foods you eat, and the types of people you may talk to during the day. Make sure you cover all of the events that occur, but feel free to be as detailed as you want.

(Add any more information that you may come across that you find interesting or important. Remember, it is your job to tell everything you can about this colonist for the Who's  Who book that you need to write. When you are finished, it should be about one typed page long.)

Your last step is to find a picture on the computer. This can be a clip art picture, a picture you find online, or one that you scan in to the computer, to add to your colonist's page. We will discuss in class how to add pictures to your paper on the computer, but if you need any help, be sure to ask!