Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 3

Document Links:

Document 3.1 VENTURE SMITH, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa (1798)

Document 3.2 THOMAS PHILLIPS, Voyage of the Hannibal (1694)

Document 3.3 WILLEM BOSMAN, A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1703)

Document 3.4 OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 3

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: What groups were involved in and responsible for the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and how did it change the lives of those who were enslaved?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 3.13

1. Which of the sources provide specific evidence about the roles played by African facilitators of the slave trade? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.1: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.2: Voyage of the Hannibal
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.3: A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 3.4: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Correct: Document 3.1: Venture describes the Africans who invaded others’ territories and took prisoners of war to be sold as slaves. Document 3.2: Thomas Phillips describes the African kings who sold slaves to European slave dealers. Document 3.3: Willem Bosman describes the process that European slave traders used to acquire slaves from their African owners.
Incorrect: Document 3.4: Olaudah Equiano’s account begins at the point where he boards the European slave trader’s ship. It does not describe the actions of Africans who facilitated the slave trade.

Question 3.14

2. Which of these documents provide specific evidence from the perspective of European slave traders? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 3.1: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.2 : Voyage of the Hannibal
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.3: A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 3.4 : The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Correct: Document 3.2: Thomas Phillips was a European trader describing the process through which he purchased slaves from Africans in Africa. Document 3.3: Willem Bosman was a European slave trader describing the process through which he purchased slaves from Africans in Africa.
Incorrect: Document 3.1: Venture was a slave discussing his personal experiences with capture and enslavement. Document 3.4: Olaudah Equiano was a slave discussing his personal experience with the Middle Passage.

Question 3.15

3. Which of the following documents provide evidence about the human suffering that stemmed from the slave trade? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.1: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.2: Voyage of the Hannibal
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.3: A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 3.4 : The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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