How to assess characterize the Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery in the 18th century
Write and type up a two-to-four paragraph analytical essay in which you consider how to assess characterize the Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery in the 18th century (1700s).Be sure to have a thesis and put it in your first paragraph. Use support from readings to support your argument.
primary sources
1-OLAUDAH EQUIANO 2-SPARKS, THE TWO PRINCES OF CALABAR, INTRODUCTION, CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 OR THOMPSON, AMERICAN SLAVERY, CHAPTER 5, SURVIVING SLAVERY;
The analysis assignment is open-ended, but you might consider some of the following questions when developing your thesis:
– Why did people get involved in the slave trade business? Why did they make the decisions they did?
– How did people cope with their lives in enslavement?
– How did people resist? What factors might have determined the types of resistance strategy they
chose to employ?
– Did growing up as a slave differ from the experience of being captured and enslaved? How?
– How did people cope with and survive the “middle passage” from Africa to the “new” world?
essay MUST include:
1) A thesis statement (this is the main point you want to make such as the 1927 handout which asserted that “America is the child of Europe.”) thesis should be in the first paragraph.
2) An argument/interpretation (what the readings demonstrate about the society/how we should understand the documents and this society using proof or evidence from the documents/textbook.) See above questions for ideas.
3) Should include a timeframe, which should be in the first paragraph and preferably a part of the thesis; and
4) At least one partial quote from the primary source document(s) that support your point(s) (e.g., Queen
Juana believed that the Indians of Hispaniola were inferior to Spaniards due to her description of the Indians them as having “evil inclinations” and being predisposed to their “customary idleness and vice.” Otherwise you may paraphrase your support from the textbook/documents.
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