3. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 3: The Atlantic Slave Trade

**Quiz for Document 3.3: Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1703)**

Quiz for Document 3.3: Willem Bosman, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1703)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Why, according to Bosman, did he strive to put slaves on ships to cross the Atlantic as quickly as possible?

To minimize the cost of keeping them at the fort

To prevent them from organizing a rebellion

To keep them as healthy as possible

To make room for new groups of captives

2. How does Bosman seek to justify his barbarous treatment of slaves to his reader?

He states that it is acceptable because African slaves are subhuman.

He suggests that it is acceptable because he has bought and paid for them.

He argues that it is necessary but that they treat women more gently than men.

He asserts that it is no more barbarous than the treatment of prisoners in Europe.

3. Bosman’s account of his experience in the African slave trade supports which of the following conclusions?

The African slave trade was a European institution in which Africans played no part.

Participants in the African slave trade were primarily concerned with their profits.

European slave traders made no distinction between enslaved women and enslaved men.

The Dutch and the Portuguese were the only Europeans involved in the African slave trade.

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