All the links below and questions are just to give you an idea of what we studied this week. You don’t have to open and read or watch each link’s material.
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQdmYLeF6M
YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5v-Shqz0Bg
Reading: “Slavery in Virginia”
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957987-dt-content-rid-561212098_1/xid-561212098_1
Reading: “Slavery in Barbados”
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957988-dt-content-rid-561212099_1/xid-561212099_1
Slavery images
http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/page/welcome
Website: A spiral of history
https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/loango/loango.htm
Reading: Olaudah Equiano, “Interesting Narrative” (1789)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6372/
For the complete autobiography, see https://history.hanover.edu/texts/equiano/equiano_contents.html
Reading: From Jean Barbot’s " A description of the coasts of north and south guinea
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-75142883-dt-content-rid-571543964_1/xid-571543964_1
Slavery Narratives
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/about-this-collection/
More Slave Narratives: Interviews of formerly enslaved individuals by members of the Federal Writers Project (WPA) in the 1930s
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957993-dt-content-rid-503760429_1/xid-503760429_1
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957993-dt-content-rid-503760239_1/xid-503760239_1
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957993-dt-content-rid-503760246_1/xid-503760246_1
this is a large collection of slave narratives. Unfortunately it is a 465-page pdf, and rather unwieldly.
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957993-dt-content-rid-571182666_1/xid-571182666_1
DB 6: Empire and Exploitation: The Atlantic Slave Trade
This week’s DB question is based on both primary source readings (in the Topic Folder) and Alan Taylor’s descriptions of the origins of black slavery in the 17th century Chesapeake colony (Virginia) and in 17th century Barbados.
Taylor’s work isolates two important moments in the history of racism in the Atlantic world, one in Virginia and the other in Barbados. Both are affected by developments in England. Can you say what those moments consisted of? Why are they significant? Do they have any relevance for us now?
The primary sources (Equiano and Barbot) describe the slave trade in Africa. What new knowledge (if any) about African slavery do these sources provide for you? How do primary sources compare to secondary sources as aids to understanding the slave trade?
Everyone must contribute to the discussion a minimum of three times each week: one contribution will be your response to the question I’ve posed (250 words) and the other two will be responses to other students’ posts. See the Discussion Board grading rubric in Course Information for specifics on how your posts will be evaluated.
All the above links and questions are just to give you an idea of what we studied in this week.
Part one of the assignment;
See the following PDF document for the prompt for Part 1 of this assignment.
https://bbhosted.cuny.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-72957930-dt-content-rid-561212051_1/xid-561212051_1
Part 2 of the assignment:
Reflection on Quantitative Literacy Exercise: After you finish answering the questions in the assignment, sit back and reflect on the experience of using quantitative data to answer historical questions.
Submit your thoughts on the following on the Discussion Board and reply to at least one other student’s post.
Working with the data: Once you accessed the statistical data, what strategies did you use to make meaning of the data as it related to the questions? Did you need to do further research to use the data in the questions? If so, what did you do?
Limitations: What did you expect to learn, but didn’t? What didn’t you see here? What couldn’t you find out?
Questions not asked: What most struck you about the statistics that does not relate to the specific questions being asked? What are some significant historical questions besides those in this assignment that the statistics can answer?
The value of quantitative reasoning: Why is data analysis important? how do skills apply even if you are not going into a career where you are not using data analysis?
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