Transatlantic Slave Trade Research Paper

HIST 308

Sofia Clark

Spring 2020

Research Paper

Sample Outline:

1) Introduction

2) Story of capture

3) Background on British antislavery

4) Background on Royal Navy

5) Background on this specific Royal Navy vessel

6) Story of what treaty was used to condemn the slave ship

7) Background on treaty

8) Background on British relations with treaty country

9) Background on slave trade in this particular region

10) Story of what happens to the captives removed from this particular slave ship

11) Background on the general treatment of liberated Africans

12) Explanation of how the story of your ship exemplifies the broader history of slavery and anti-slavery

Bibliography

1) The slave trade in general (i.e., either the Transatlantic slave trade or Indian Ocean slave trade depending on your ship)

Article (JSTOR): Alkalimat, Abdul. "Slave Trade." In The African American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Web Sites on Black Culture and History, 34-42. LONDON; STERLING, VIRGINIA: Pluto Press, 2004. Accessed May 30, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183q64x.8.

Article (JSTOR): JUNKER, CARSTEN. "Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts." In Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture, edited by RAIFORD LEIGH and RAPHAEL-HERNANDEZ HEIKE, 13-29. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 2017. Accessed May 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcwnj4v.5.

2) The slave trade in the specific area of Africa in which your ship embarked enslaved African captives (e.g., Bight of Benin, Senegambia, Angola).

Book (JSTOR): Strickrodt, Silke. "The Atlantic Connection: Little Popo & the Rise of Afro-European Trade on the Western Slave Coast, C. 1600 to 1702." In Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, C. 1550- C. 1885, 65-101. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. Accessed May 30, 2020. doi:10.7722/j.ctt7zst5n.9.

Article (JSTOR): Graham, James D. "The Slave Trade, Depopulation and Human Sacrifice in Benin History: The General Approach." Cahiers D'Études Africaines 5, no. 18 (1965): 317-34. Accessed May 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/4390897.

3) Slavery in the region to which your ship was heading (e.g., Cuba, Bahia, Pernambuco).

Book (One Search): Schneider, Elena Andrea. The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. North Carolina Scholarship Online. Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Article (Project Muse): Garrigus, John. "Cuba, Haiti, and the Age of Atlantic Revolution." Reviews in American History 44, no. 1 (2016): 52-57.  doi:10.1353/rah.2016.0012 .

4) British antislavery policy toward the country your ship was from (e.g., Portugal, Spain, USA)

Book- page 14(Academic Search Premiere- also works for #3): Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. 1999. Empire And Antislavery : Spain Cuba And Puerto Rico 1833-1874. Pitt Latin American Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=5840&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Article (Page 184- Academic Search Premiere): Berquist, Emily. 2010. “Early Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1765-1817.” Slavery & Abolition 31 (2): 181–205. doi:10.1080/01440391003711073.

5) The history of the Royal Navy’s anti-slave-trade campaign in the particular region in which your ship was captured (e.g., West Africa, Indian Ocean, Caribbean).

Article (JSTOR): Ferrer, Ada. "Cuban Slavery and Atlantic Antislavery." In Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire, edited by Fradera Josep M. and Schmidt-Nowara Christopher, 134-57. Berghahn Books, 2013. Accessed May 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qd02x.10.

Book (JSTOR): Childs, Matt D. "Cuba, the Atlantic Crisis of the 1860s, and the Road to Abolition." In American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s, edited by DOYLE DON H., 204-21. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Accessed May 30, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469631103_doyle.14.

6) The history of liberated Africans in the particular area in which the captives from your ship were released (e.g., Sierra Leone, Cape of Good Hope, Saint Helena, Caribbean).

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