Test Bank For Freedom on My Mind A History of African Americans with Documents 2nd Edition
Answer each of the following questions with an essay. Be sure to include specific examples that support your thesis and conclusions.
| 1. | What role did kinship ties play in West African life? Describe the role one’s family played in society, politics, and economics. |
| 2. | What role did slave labor play in Spain’s conquest of the Americas? Discuss how Indians and Africans were enslaved in the New World and why colonists abandoned indigenous slavery for African slavery. |
| 3. | What did captives experience while waiting for a slave ship to arrive on the West African coast? |
| 4. | What were the physical, cultural, and psychological traumas that West Africans were forced to endure during the Middle Passage? |
| 5. | What were the differences between slavery in Africa and slavery in the New World? |
