Content tagged with colonies:
Pre-reading
- Have you ever been to the United States? Where and when? Share your stories with a partner.
- Where would you like to visit? In which part of the country? Which state(s)?
- Can you take a guess at approximately how many people live there?
- As the country is extremely vast, can you name some similarities and differences that you would find if traveling from one end to the other?
arranged marriage, colonies, literature, Nigeria, the British Empire
Pre-reading: Is a young person in love the best judge of whom to marry? In the Western world we have a romantic, individualistic notion of marriage. In other cultures marriage is more of an alliance between families, or a way to secure one's future. What are the pros and cons of these different approaches?
Imagine being eleven years old and becoming a slave. This is what happened to Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian boy, when he was left at home to look after the house with his sister while the grown ups were out working the fields. With human trafficking in mind, this could have been a recent news headline. Only, this happened in the 1750s, when this incident was so common that it did not cause any headlines.
