A. a supreme court.
The supreme court is the highest court there is. The supreme court is made up of 9 judges which decide on the verdict together. If the majority decides on a verdict, then that verdict will be taken.
When you get tried in a court, you can choose to take the case to a higher court after the trial if there's evidence that was ignored, if new evidence comes to light, or in other rare circumstances. The highest you can go is the supreme court, and once you're tried there and the court comes to a decision, you're done and can't be tried again for whatever crime you were accused.
Olaudah Equiano was an african writer born in Nigeria by the XVIII century who lived in England and its american colonies. He claimed to have born in a lost town named Chia near the Igbo region of Nigeria, at the early age of eleven he was took as a slave and carried to North America where he was sold firstly to a captain of the royal navy who named him as Gustavus Vassa as an insult to the Swedish king of that time.
The captain´s name was Michael Pascal and at first Equiano refused to use the name because he had been already renamed twice before during his travel in the ship, he prefer to be named Jacob, the second name they have put him, but after many tortures, acordding to him he ended up submitting to the new name. After spending a long time with Pascal in which he converted to the christianism among other things he was sold to another captain who took him to the Caribbean where he was purchased by Robert King an american quaker.
Robert set Equiano to work on his shipping routes and his stores and taught him to write and read. In 1765, when he was 20 years old King promised that for 40 pounds, Equiano´s purchase price, he could buy his freedom, action that was achieved on 1766. After that King urged him to stay as his bussines partner but Olaudah found it dangerous to stay in the british colonies specially after an intempt of kidnapping on Georgia. He travelled to England where he joined the abolitionist movement that encourage him to write and publish a memoir book named <em>"The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the Afircan"</em> in 1789.
It was an important historical source because it represented one of the first writings on western narration made by an african author. It was the first time that someone wirtes about slavery from the point of view of the slave itself. He caused surprise between the readers because of its quality of imagery, description and literaly style, he made comparissons with the bible showing his knowledge on christian religion. The publication became a best seller almost inmediatly ( 3 years after it was publish) and fuelled a growing anti-slavery movement in Great Britain, Europe and North America.
I hope this answer would help you, I put a briefly biography of Olaudah to set the context
The answer is both male and females act in movies in plays (back then males played both male and female characters)
America's economy was driven by the production and selling of cash crops during the 19th century. This was especially true for cotton. Cotton is a valuable commodity with several different uses. The development of cotton became easier thanks to the cotton gin. Due to the invention of the cotton gin, there was an increased demand for labor. This lead to the increase in the amount of slaves, especially in southern states. Essentially, the market economy and America's ability to make a huge profit off cotton resulted in an increased demand for slaves.
Many farmers desired that this institution continue to spread westward. This was due to the fact that many farmers were looking to settle west due to cheap land made available by the federal government through laws such as the Homestead Act. In order to have success on these farmers, slave owners wanted to bring their slaves with them to these new territories.
