Week 3 Schedule
Tuesday
READ
“The Drums of Epiphany (African Roots)” in National Rhythms, African Roots [91-113]
EXPLORE
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Develop a well-bounded research question about the transatlantic slave trade. (Examples: How did the slave trade to Brazil and to Spanish America differ between 1810 and 1815? How did the gender ratio of slaves arriving to Brazil change between 1790 and 1810?).
- Decide which variables you need to select to answer your research question.
- In the search results, click along the tabs at the top to see the information represented in different formats. Copy the URL of each search to include in your blog post.
DUE
SlaveVoyages.org Blog Post (300 words)
Thursday
READ
John Thornton, “Introduction” and “The Birth of an Atlantic World” in Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World (Second Edition) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) [CR 1-42]
DUE
- Revised blog post
- One question for contributors about the Slavevoyages.org project
- One question for the contributors about why they study the Atlantic World and what they have learned from this approach