Test: AP US History

Five of our number in the passage dy'd, 
Who were cast into the ocean wide, 
And, after sailing seven weeks and more, 
We at Virginia all were put on shore. ...

Our faces shav'd, comb'd our wigs and hair, 
That we in decent order might appear, 
Against the Planters did come us to view, 
How well they lik'd this fresh transported crew ...

At length a grim old man unto me came, 
He ask'd my trade, likewise my name, 
I told him I a tin-man was by trade, 
And not eighteen years of age I said ...

At last to my new master's house I came, 
To the town of Wicowoco call'd by name, 
Here my European cloaths were took from me, 
Which never after I could ever see.

Passage adapted from "The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account" by James Revell (1767)

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Who is the most likely author of this passage?

An indentured servant brought to the American colonies to work off his debt

An African slave brought to Virginia for sale to a plantation owner

An American abolitionist

A Puritan man convicted and sentenced to hard labor

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