Week 4 reader report

Week Four Reader Report 

Instructions: After you have completed all readings on Pre-Colonial Africa and Black Slavery in the Americas for week four, answer the following question(s)/prompt(s) based upon what you have read. All answers must be provided using complete sentences. Note: Your reader report will be different each week.

1. (ch. 4) Discuss the Middle Passage and how it related to the dehumanization of Africans. (3pts)
2. (ch. 4) How was internal African slavery was different from European African slavery. (2pts)
3. (ch. 4) How was African underdeveloped by slavery? (2pts)
4. (ch. 5) Which were stronger in the era of the early American republic, the forces in favor of black freedom or those in favor of continued enslavement? (1pt)
5. (ch. 5) How were African Americans able to achieve emancipation in the North? (2pts)
6. (ch. 5) How was the United States Constitution, as was it was drafted in 1787, proslavery? How was it anti-slavery? (3pts)
7. (ch. 5) How important were separate institutions in shaping the lives of free black people during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? (2pts)

______ / 15pts