6. Most of the black men live in the hot part of the United States,
where cotton and sugar are grown. White people cannot work in the cotton
or sugar fields, because the sun is too hot for them.

7. The black people who live in the United States were born in America.
They have never known any other land. America, however, is not their
real home. They really belong to Africa.

8. How is it that we now find them in America? When the white men of
America began to grow cotton and sugar, they needed black men to work in
the fields. Men called "slavers" went to Africa in ships. They landed
and pushed inland. When they came to villages they seized the people and
drove them off to the ships.

9. The poor blacks, who were thus dragged from their home and kindred,
were thrust into the holds of ships and carried to America. Sometimes
they suffered much on the voyage. The weakest of them died, and were
thrown overboard.

10. When they reached America they were sold to the cotton-growers and
sugar-growers, who carried them off to work in the fields. Sometimes
they were kindly treated; sometimes they were flogged to make them work.
But whether kindly or cruelly treated, they were no longer men and
women, but slaves.

11. This went on for many years. At last some kind-hearted men in the
northern states said, "It is wicked to own slaves. All the slaves in
America shall be set free."