World history/WHME101/The Atlantic world in the 1600s/Visualizing the slave trade

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Group of men, women and children being taken to a slave market.

Examine photographs from the three collections listed below. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• How did European and American artists depict the working and living conditions of Africans?

• How did these depictions differ before and after Africans were enslaved?

• What can we learn from these images about the living conditions of African slaves?

Pre-colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Slave Ships and the Atlantic Crossing (Middle Passage)

New World Agriculture and Plantation Labor

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