HIST1301 LSC Development of and Experience within The Atlantic Slave Trade Discussion

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After reading Columbus’s diary entry in the Week 1 “Read” section, respond to the following question: What does this diary entry tell us about what both Columbus and the indigenous people he encountered hoped to achieve? Why does that matter?

Imagine you are an attorney accusing Spain of human rights violations in a sixteenth-century world criminal court. Draw on the two Voices of Freedom documents in chapter one to 1) help you prepare your closing argument. And 2) address what you imagine Spain’s defense attorney would argue regarding Spanish and Indian interactions?

According to Henry Care in English Liberties (see the “Who Is an American?” feature in Chapter 2), how do Care’s notions of liberty compare to Gov. John Winthrop’s ideas in Massachusetts (see the Voices of Freedom feature in Chapter 2)?

Based on your chapter 2 reading for Week 2 and on your analysis of the Anne Hutchinson document in the Week 2 “Read” folder, why do you think John Winthrop and other leading men of the Massachusetts Bay Colony believed she was such a threat? What was she accused of, and how did she respond?

Read Nathaniel Bacon’s Manifesto (week 2 “Read” folder), and review the timeline of events in Virginia (week 2 “Read” folder), including the development of slave codes (Also review a similar law in Maryland in Chapter 3’s Voices of Freedom feature on p. 104). Based on your analysis, and on your reading of Ch. 2 in the textbook, discuss the impact Bacon’s Rebellion had on indentured servitude and African slavery.

After watching the videos about the Atlantic Slave Trade (the animated maps, the Crash Course video, and the 3D tour of the slave ship), reading the document by Olaudah Equiano, and viewing the print of the slave ship “Brookes,” respond to the following question: What are the most important things that these sources tell us about the development of and experience within the Atlantic Slave Trade?