The African American Experience at Stratford: http://www.stratfordhall.org/africa.html?RESEARCH This essay reveals the difficulty historians have had in attempting to understand the lives of African-American slaves during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. What evidence does this author utilize in constructing his narrative? Which of these kinds of evidence do you find most and least compelling? Why? Is the author making an argument in this essay? If so, what is it? How do his portraits of slaves compare with the various depictions described in this chapter's counterpoint essay? Based on the evidence provided in this essay, which explanation of slaves' responses to their situation seems most convincing to you? |