Discussion leaders: your 300-word response can either address each of these questions one at a time, or, better yet, you can weave your answers together. If you're feeling stuck, take a look at the "Focus Questions" and "Review Questions" at the beginning and end of Foner Chapter 4.
In addition to your response, be sure to provide 5 ID terms relevant to the week's readings and/or lectures. Remember that your ID terms must be different than the "Key Terms" listed at the end of Foner Chapter 4. Your definition for each ID term should be 1-2 sentences.
- How did the Transatlantic Slave Trade intersect and overlap with the Indian Slave Trade? Why did these trades intersect? What were the geographic scopes of each?
- Building off of one of last week's questions, provide an answer that reflects new information learned from lecture:
How were Indigenous forms of enslavement (i.e., traditional forms of captivity/bondage/slavery practiced by Indigenous peoples in North America) both similar and different from traditional African forms of enslavement (i.e. traditional forms of captivity/bondage/slavery practiced by African peoples in Africa)? How did European commodification of Indigenous and African slaveries (i.e., the Indian Slave Trade and the Atlantic Slave Trade) shape and alter traditional forms of enslavement? - Why did the massive eighteenth-century influx of European immigrants (especially non-English immigrants to the English colonies) begin at nearly the exact same time as the massive forced migration of enslaved Africans? What is the relationship between these two major demographic waves? What are key dates tied to both migration waves?
- How did post-1720 massive migrations and demographic shifts alter colonial diplomacy? How did these European and African migration waves shape Indigenous migrations? What is the relationship between European settler colonialism and the movement and migration of Indigenous groups and peoples?