Europeans established various sorts of trading relationships

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1. The Portuguese, Dutch, British, and other Europeans established various sorts of trading relationships with Africans along the coast of the continent. In some places, Europeans built outposts or forts and entered into "landlord-stranger agreements" with African leaders. In other places, they sacked and occupied towns or established settler colonies. What do you think accounts for these differences? Why did Europeans have different approaches to trade in different parts of the continent?

2. In the African-European encounter along the coast, some people and groups straddled the two cultures and helped create new cultures and societies. Examples include Krotoa in Cape Colony or the Catholic converts in Kongo. What was the role of these individuals and groups in mediating the encounter between Africans and Europeans? In doing so, were they any less authentically "African"?

3. This question refers to the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TAST) database. How is the TAST Database useful to historians conducting research on the Atlantic Slave Trade? In other words, what kinds of historical questions might you explore with this data and what are some of the limitations of quantifiable data as a primary source?

4. Do you think that Equiano's experiences are representative of the experiences of captives who were born in Africa and enslaved in the Americas? In other words, what can we learn about the Middle Passage or slavery in general from Equiano's account? Or can we only understand the one man's personal experience?

5. Olaudah Equiano wrote his Interesting Narrative for an abolitionist audience and to bring new adherents into the fold by convincing them of the inhumanity of the slave trade. Are there parts of his description of Africa or of enslavement that seem particularly geared towards converting British readers into abolitionists?

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