II. Answer the following questions.
1. How did the story of the blacks in North America begin?
2. Why was the demand for black labor great?
3. What was the plantation economy based on?
4. What was not enough to end slavery?
5. Why were the blacks brought from Africa to North America in the 17th century?
6. What was B. Banner famous for?
7. What is Paul Cuffe famous for?
8. Where could the blacks be free according to P.Cuffe?
III. Give Russian equivalents to the following English word combinations:
The history of blacks; a Dutch warship; English colony; to be short of everything; to clear and till the land; a source of free labor; on the plantations; to satisfy the demand; the slave trade; the plantation economy; institution of slavery; to fight for independence; self-determination; colonial society; the continent of the ancestors.
IV. Give English equivalents to the following Russian word combinations:
военный корабль; новая колония; захватить испанский корабль; расчищать и обрабатывать землю; бесплатный труд; основываться на; равенство людей; институт рабства; бороться за независимость; личная свобода; колониальное общество; вопросы рабства; континент предков; бороться за свободу и достоинство всех рабов.
V. Retell the text, using expressions given in task 3.
LESSON XII.