Reference no: EM133570700
Question: Fallola, Tonyin and Roberts, Kevin D. "Empires and Slavery." In The Atlantic World, 1450-2000, edited by Tonyin Fallola and Kevin D. Roberts, 67,68. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
From a historian's perspective, what might be the importance of focusing on the people, "whose labor, repression and actions helped shape the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic World"? (Fallola, Roberts 67)
Guasco, Michael. "From Servitude to Slavery." In The Atlantic World, 1450-2000, edited by Tonyin Fallola and Kevin D. Roberts, 69-95. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
According to the author, what were the factors and processes that transformed African servitude into African slavery? Do the author's arguments have an influence on your understanding of how subtle changes in geography, demographics, and laws can create immense reverberations in a society? If so, how?
After reading this article, what further questions are you interested in exploring?
Primary Source: Anonymous. An excerpt from a 1788 account describing the capture and kidnapping of Africans as part of the slave trade. 1788. Digital Public Library of America. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-transatlantic-slave-trade/sources/316
*Note: you may notice that some words in this document seem to use an "f" when it should be written with an "s". These are not typos. Rather, in prior centuries, some words in written English were spelled with a "long s". As a result of this writing convention, reading this document may be a bit challenging, but it serves as good introductory practice in working with older Anglophone texts.
What does the account by this author clue us into in regards to the nature of the slave trade in Africa? What are the reflections elaborated upon by the author? How does this text inform your understanding of the way that some slave traders thought about the slave trade?