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Forced Immigration

This year in Edinger house we studied forced immigration/slavery. We saw a movie and some shows. Our teacher read books to us, about Africa(where the slaves were captured) and about slavery. The slaves were captured and taken across the ocean and one very famous ship was The Amistad. We went on a trip to the [...]

Margru Poem

This is a poem I wrote here it is,

Sarah Margru Kinson

There were other people on the Amistad besides Cinque. For example my teacher wrote about another person on the boat,( which is a non fiction book) her name was Sarah Margru Kinson. She was about 12 when she got captured with her two best friends Kange and Teme. In this book she tells her point [...]