Writing Homework Help

How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its abolition affect West Africans in the nineteenth century? How did they respond to these changes? Include specific examples in your argument.

Specific Example Sources: (1-2 per body paragraph)

1. Erik Gilbert and Jonathan T. Reynolds, “Slavery and the Creation of the Atlantic World,” Africa in World History: From Prehistory to the Present (Boston: Pearson, 2012), 143–65.
2. Robin Law, “The Transition from the Slave Trade to ‘Legitimate’ Commerce,” in From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited, ed. Dondon Diène (Paris and New York: UNESCO Publishing and Berghahn Books, 2001), 22–35.Adebayo 
3. Oyebade, “Euro-African Relations to 1885,” in Africa: African History before 1885, Vol. I, ed. Toyin Falola (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2000), 419–30.

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