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Study Group

Use this space to organize a study group for the test/essay/presentation. You should get to know your classmates!

Slave Prices & Slave Trade Narratives

Slave Prices
David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis and David Richardson, `Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade and Productivity in the Caribbean, Economic History Review 58 (2005)


Slave Prices SC
Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L. Rosenbloom and Thomas Weiss, “Slave Prices and the South Carolina Economy, 1722-1809,” Journal of Economic History, 61 (2001)

On Reserve:

Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by himself. History of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, related by herself / edited with an introduction by Moira Ferguson ; with a preface by Ziggi Alexander. Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua : his passage from slavery to freedom in Africa and America / edited by Robin Law and Paul E. Lovejoy. Africa remembered; narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade, edited by Philip D. Curtin. With introductions and annotation by Philip D. Curtin [and others]

FINAL ESSAY PROMPT

History 2501

ESSAY 2- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

1st Draft Due- Peer Review, Friday, April 29th

Final Due Date- MAY 6, 8 am

In an 8-10 page essay, you will engage with, and/or challenge, an existing interpretation of the economic, political, or moral issues that have surrounded the history of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. 

By examining the historical arguments that are presented in both Robert O. Collins Problems in Precolonial Africa and the David Northrup's Atlantic Slave Trade collection your argument should engage with differing ideas about the rise and fall of the Atlantic Slave Trade and how this mode of production affected both African and European peoples socially, culturally and economically (you do not necessarily need to include all three).  

You should analyze how your argument relates to an existing thread of scholarship and use no less than four sources, including at least ONE primary source, as well as the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database as your evidence. Please provide foot notes as well as a bibliography. 

All essays must be turned in on 8 ½ x 11” paper and use 12 point font. All titles need to be centered. All drafts must be double-spaced and have 1” margins. Pages should be numbered and stapled together. First/second drafts and AST 1 must be included and may contain corrections and comments in pencil or ink, but final drafts should be as free from error as possible.  Any papers that do not conform to these standards will not be accepted.

Questions

Do you need me to respond to a very specific question you have? Explain to me in a few words your question and I will try and get you an answer in a timely fashion. Good luck!

Wednesday, April 13/15th- What are you doing?

We should be focusing on this two page assignment as a proposal of sorts. Follow this guideline for your papers. From this investigation and short description of your project, you can make an outline for your larger paper.  Use this space to let me know how you are going to address the issues below. You just need to tell me in a sentence or two.  I will respond when I can. Use both today and Friday to come up with something good. Cheers!

Assignment #1: Proposal- use this as the model for your 500 word analysis of the AST data


I have noticed that you guys are attempting to move into good theoretical territory. This is a good way to structure your paper:

1. Figure out what argument you like from the specific historian you are focusing on. Then parse down their argument to one paragraph.

2. You are now engaging with their theoretical model, or methodology. This means that you are going to try to use their model to prove or disprove your own argument, based on very specific data from your AST project. Write a paragraph on what you are going to do and how.

3. Now is the time to provide an analysis. This is the point where you have left their argument and the way they constructed their theoretical model and now you are on your own. You have made your own argument, you are using your own evidence, and you are developing your own analysis. This is the bulk of your essay.

4. Conclude, but don't act like you have figured out some gospel truth. Make room for further analysis, or future research, stuff like that., so that you can use it as the base for your larger paper

Monday, April 11th- What are you doing?

Please let me know what you have been doing for your AST project.