Essay Questions for Thinking through Sources 14

1. Noticing what’s missing: What perspectives are missing that might add other dimensions to our understanding of this commerce in people?
2. Integrating sources and the text narrative: In what ways do these sources support, illustrate, supplement, or contradict this chapter’s narrative discussion of the slave trade?
3. 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?