Questions for Discussion

1. John Gowen had an interesting impact on the economic, social and political impact on Jamestown and the London Company. How did this impact affect future colonization in America?  
2. What was the nexus between the Free People of Color in the South and the neighboring slave populations?
3. Freedom Road provides an historical perspective of the turmoil on the European and African continents in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In what way did this turmoil impact eighteenth century Native Americans?
4. In what ways did European and African Americans share similar views on the need to support the War for Independence? How were their views different?
5. As described in Freedom Road, the Enslavement Proclamation had a chilling effect on Free People of Color. In what ways did the Proclamation impact FPOC and how did it impact intergenerational wealth?