summer reading brook wood high school

Ben Chong Slavery was a practice used by almost every race in the world. Slavery was necessity because it played a major role in plantations and industrial areas. The only two products that the USA could export for hard currency at a profit and on a regular basis were cotton and tobacco, both of which are extremely labor intensive. Slavery in America differed from ancient times because slaves of ancient times were captured prisoners of war, criminals, civilians on the losing side of a war, while slaves in American where bought and predominately black . Slaves in ancient times were considered humans, in contrast to the 1400’s when slaves or Africans were consider sub humans, inferior to the white people. http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/slavery-and-anti-slavery/resources/facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery this website verifies the information talking about how slaves were trade across the Atlantic Ocean in horrible conditions. I Chose this section of the book because Mrs. Smith from Ap world was the first person to explain that slaves are not just blacks but can be any race.

Thomas Edison was an inventor that provided the basic foundation for technology that we still use today and improved on. Thomas Edison created the light bulb, phonograph, the movie camera and much more. These technologies like the light bulb are taken for granted because most of the world uses light from the basic light bulb, led, and flashlights. After numerous failures, Edison finally found the perfect material for the filament, thus replacing the lamps that used kerosene and oil . An additional source from http://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html challenges who really created the light bulb stating that Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb, but the article states long before Edison created commercially light