Using the Evidence: Voices from the Slave Trade

1. Question

   Highlighting differences: What different experiences of the slave trade are reflected in these documents? How can you account for those differences?

2. Question

   Noticing what’s missing: What perspectives are missing that might add other dimensions to our understanding of this commerce in people?

3. Question

   Integrating documents and the text narrative: In what ways do these documents support, illustrate, or contradict this chapter’s narrative discussion of the slave trade?

4. Question

   Assessing historical responsibility: What light do these documents shed on the much-debated question about who should be held responsible for the tragedy of the Atlantic slave trade?