Problems in World History
Questions to Guide Our Investigation

Presentation Index

Atlantic Slave Trade:

Problem:

We will raise these questions and more through our investigation of one of the worst epidemics in human history - the Bubonic Plague of the 14th century.

Atlantic Slave Trade Documents

  • Historians on Why Africa
  • Africa During the Slave Trade: A Slave Trader's View
  • Africa During the Slave Trade: Equiano's View
  • African Enslavement through Warfare and Capture: Narrative of Joseph Wright
  • African Enslavement through Warfare and Capture: Narrative of Ajayi Crowther
  • Letter from King Alfonso of the Kongo,
  • Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa
  • Auctioning Slaves in Africa
  • The Middle Passage
  • Video Notes: A Slave Ship
  • Demographic Simulation: Effects of Slave Trade on Africa
  • Link to good set of African history sources

  • Destinations of Slaves: 1451-1870
  • Trends in Atlantic Slave Trading
  • Worldwide Abolition of Slave Trade and Emancipation of Slaves
  • Historians and Anthropologists describe African slave systems before Atlantic slave trade
  • Martin Delany on changes within Africa
  • Congo King describes impact on Africa
  • Historian Meltzer describes impact on Africa
  • DuBois on Effect on Americas
  • Thomas on consequences for Americas
  • Thomas on impact on Africa
  • Manning on impact on Africa
  • Manning on the lasting heritage of slave system - racism
  • Manning on the end of slavery
  • Link to essay on shift from slavery trade to legitimate commerce
  • Link to Transatlantic slave trade in Ghana
  • Thomas Jefferson on Slavery
  • English Exports : Destinations, 1663-1818
  • Journal Entry: Analyzing Our Study of Atlantic Slavery
  • Journal Entry: Reflecting on History as a Unique Discipline

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