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Slave Trade Document Analysis

The document outlines an analysis of various historical sources related to slavery, focusing on their historical context, intended audience, purpose, and the author's perspective. It includes a thesis statement that discusses the evolution of slavery from a means of punishment to a system of economic exploitation through warfare and tribal displacement. The thesis question prompts an evaluation of the changes in slavery systems between 1450 and 1750 CE.

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Slave Trade Document Analysis

The document outlines an analysis of various historical sources related to slavery, focusing on their historical context, intended audience, purpose, and the author's perspective. It includes a thesis statement that discusses the evolution of slavery from a means of punishment to a system of economic exploitation through warfare and tribal displacement. The thesis question prompts an evaluation of the changes in slavery systems between 1450 and 1750 CE.

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Document Analysis:

Link to the documents:


1. Historical Context
2. Intended Audience
3. Purpose
4. Perspective of the Author

Directions: Pick 6 of 9 Images and complete the HIPP chart for them:

Slide #number H: Historical I: Intended P: Purpose P: Perspective


to source Context Audience of Author

7 French Historians To show what Author is not


engraving or trying to see the slaves had to described but
drawing of the what they made do on the ships probably a
slave ships slaves do person
transporting
them

4 News Article Historians To show and Analyzing the


written at the wandering early early way of document
time ways of making making Sugar
Sugar

5 Depiction of Indigo Farmers To show how Most likely the


slaves growing slaves were owner of the
Indigo growing indigo slaves.

8 Created during Sea Captains To show how


the time slaves captains kept
were being control of the
traded slaves.

9 Story of a rebel Africans To show that A historian


the rebelled not all Africans showing a
against the wanted to be distinct rebel.
African s being enslaved and
traded tried to fight
back.

10 Slave ship Historians To show how


Diagram they were put in
ships

Thesis Statement: Although slavery was first just meant just to get rid of criminals, it turned
into a system of taking over different tribes and selling people into slavery, this shows how
slavery changed from a means of getting rid of criminals, to causing war and violence through
means of taking other tribes and selling other people into slavery for gain of economic wealth.

Thesis Question: Evaluate the extent to which systems of slavery changed in the
period ca 1450 - 1750 CE

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