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I. The Great Exchange
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This Web-based assignment will give you and your students an opportunity to use the Internet and evaluate its resources.
For each of the sites listed below, answer the following questions for analysis:
Who developed this site?
How valid is it and why?
What makes it reliable or unreliable?
What about it impresses you?
What is a major weakness of this site?
Can you detect a bias? If so, what is it?
ThinkQuest: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Overview
How old is the institution of slavery? What kinds of work, traditionally, did slaves perform? What were the chief horrors of the slave trade?
 ThinkQuest: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Overview
African American Odyssey: Slavery -- The Peculiar Institution
How did some West Africans react to capture, enslavement? Scroll down to "West Africa in the 18th Century." What present-day countries provided two-thirds of the slaves to the Americas? Which European nations participated in the Atlantic trade?
African American Odyssey: Slavery -- The Peculiar Institution
The University of Calgary: The Applied History Research Group: The European Voyages of Exploration: The Sugar & Slave Trades
Review the five paragraphs on "The Sugar Plantation." What were two things required for sugar production? Where did the plantation economic system thrive in particular, and why?
Read the essay on "African Slavery." Compare and contrast African models with those that developed in the plantation economic system.
The University of Calgary: The Applied History Research Group
The Kennedy Center: The African Diaspora Map -- I
Study the map. Does anything strike you? What?
The Kennedy Center: The African Diaspora Map -- I
Fordham University: Internet African History Sourcebook
Scroll down to "The Impact of Slavery." Follow the link under "The Slave Trade" to "Race and Slavery in the Middle East." Read paragraphs three and four of Bernard Lewis' essay. Who owned the slaves? What work did the slaves perform? How did they become slaves? How did the Old and New Testaments address slavery?
Fordham University: Internet African History Sourcebook
The Sankofa Project Guide
Select the link "The Black Holocaust." On that page, select the link "The Maafa -- a Holocaust of Greed." Read the text and look at the graphics. Think about what you're reading and seeing. Offer two thoughts about the idea of a "holocaust."
The Sankofa Project Guide
Disclaimer
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