Conclusion
Now
that you have written an argument about a specific historical figure from the
seventeenth or eighteenth century and reviewed several details about Atlantic
World trade, you are better prepared to answer midterm exam questions about the
development of the British empire up to the American
Revolution. The primary sources in this activity will also provide excellent
evidence for an essay assignment or extra credit opportunities. You can explain
the impact of British trans-Atlantic trade using a personal vignette, a
comparison with a different perspective, general trends, political economics,
historical fiction, and geography. The variety of these types of sources can
help you craft a well-developed analysis of labor in the Atlantic World in the
1600s and 1700s.
For
further information, see these suggested resources:
Websites
Slave
Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database -- http://www.slavevoyages.org
Virtual
Jamestown, Seventeenth Century Labor Contracts -- http://www.virtualjamestown.org/servantcontracts.html
Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History, Essays on the
Origins of Slavery -- http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/colonization-and-settlement-1585-1763/origins-slavery/essays
Books
Berlin,
Ira. Many Thousands Gone:
The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1998.
Calloway,
Colin. New Worlds for All:
Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, 2d ed.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Campbell,
Mavis C. Back to Africa:
George Ross and the Maroons: From Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone.
Trenton: Africa World Press, Inc., 1993.
Campbell,
Mavis C, ed. Nova Scotia and
the Fighting Maroons: A Documentary History. Williamsburg, VA: Department
of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1990.
Equiano,
Olaudah. The
Interesting Narrative and Other Writings: Revised Edition. Edited by Vincent Carretta. New
York: Penguin, 2003.
Harms,
Robert. The Diligent: A
Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade.
New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Jordan, Don and Michael Walsh. White Cargo: The Forgotten History of
Britain's White Slaves in America. New York: NYU Press, 2008.
Linebaugh, Peter and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra:
the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. New York: Verso,
2012.
Morgan,
Philip. Slave Counterpoint:
Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Richter,
Daniel. Facing East from
Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 2001.
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