assignment requirments:
Online Response A good response for each of the following questions should be approximately 100-150 words in length. 1. Based on the accounts of William Shelgrave and William Bosman, discuss three reasons why European slave traders and African kings participated in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
2. Using at least three of the primary sources covered during week eight of class, discuss three forms of resistance employed by enslaved Africans during their capture, voyage and enslavement in the Americas. What form of resistance do you consider to be the most effective and why?
3. What is “mass incarceration” and why does Prof. Michelle Alexander refer to it as the “New Jim Crow?” Using information from Prof. Alexander’s article and/or lecture (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ6H-Mz6hgw), discuss two specific ways in which mass incarceration is similar to the old Jim Crow.
