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Activity 2: Colonial Slavery
Exploration
1: Enslavement
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Log
of the Sandown, 1793-1794, Caird Library, National Maritime
Museum, London (neg. D7596)
Color drawing, cropped from a page of a ship's log, showing
coffle of slaves and guards armed with bows and arrows and
spears; African village in the foreground.
Image courtesy of The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life
in the Americas: A Visual Record website at http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html
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What
do the following accounts tell us about the process of enslavement?
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Exploration 2: Shipboard Conditions
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George
L. Sulivan, Dhow chasing in Zanzibar waters and on the eastern
coast of Africa (London, 1873), facing p. 168; also, published
in The Graphic, London (March 8, 1873), p.233
Caption, "Group of Negro men and boys taken out of captured
Dhow in state of starvation."
Image courtesy of The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life
in the Americas: A Visual Record website at http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html
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What do the following accounts tell us about shipboard conditions
during the Middle Passage?
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Exploration 3: Experiences
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Henry
Bibb, Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb,
an American slave, written by himself (New York, 1849), p.
201. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia)
Image courtesy of The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life
in the Americas: A Visual Record website at http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html
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What
do the following accounts tell us about the experiences of enslaved
Africans upon their arrival in the New World?
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