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Newton Key, Spring 2011, His 2560, Paper 2, Equiano’s Worlds Paper, due 1 December (20%of final grade, typed, double-spaced, 7 pp.; must also submit electronic file of paper in emailattachment to [email protected]). Use a clear and consistent form of referencing, preferablyTurabian–see citation guide on the web at http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/citate.htm.Use one of the following essay prompts to write your essay1) Compare and contrast different types of unfree labor in the Atlantic and Mediterranean World inthe mid-18th century. Use evidence The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano (atleast five specific examples) and at least three additional primary sources (one may be document atend of the editions of Equiano; others should be drawn from British Periodicals online). How doyou distinguish between and interrelate the different types of slavery and unfree labor mentioned inthese 18th-century sources? How does your definition of this socioeconomic feature compare withthat developed in the textbook by Brummett, et. al.?2) World history is about cross-cultural interactions, trams-regional perspectives, or exchanges.(For example, look at the series of intended and unintended exchange of goods, populations, anddiseases between the Old World and the New after 1492 called the Columbian Exchange.)Focusing on two-or-three types of exchanges, show the interaction of European, African, and NewWorld ideas, activities, and populations in the mid-18th century. Use evidence from TheInteresting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano (at least five specific examples) and at leastthree additional primary sources (one may be document at end of the editions of Equiano; othersshould be drawn from British Periodicals online). Rather than just noting that this particularperson moved from one place to another, give evidence of specific customs, words, activities thatmigrate from one place and group to another.References for your main source may be parenthetical, and the rest given or as foot- or endnotes:The mid-18th century Atlantic World was one where free, unfree, and slave labor mixed, as did theraces. We can find evidence of this in Equiano’s Life. Thus, Equiano, late in his life returned tothe Caribbean where he had once been a slave, to work with his “old friend” Dr. Irving on theMusquito Coast (now Panama), but this time as an overseer and he helped “purchased some slavesto...cultivate a plantation,” all of whom must have been Black Africans, who Equiano states were“all my own countrymen” (Equiano, pp. 153, 155). There were Indians there (like the Paraguayansin Candide), but “they would not work at any thing for us” (Equiano, p. 156). Another African,Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, also contrasted African slavery “which...are well fed...and treated well”with “those inhospitable regions of misery which they meet with in the West-Indies” (Cugoano,Thoughts, 1787, in Equiano, p. 274). The textbook Civilization Past and Present notes thatAfrican slaves were used in South America by the 1550s. By the 1700s they were mainly used to“serve in elite households” as they were by Voltaire’s Jesuits.1Palmira Brummett, et. al., Civilization Past & Present, 11 ed. (New York, 2006), 478.1 thPre-assignment (due submitted on WebCT 17 November). You may work on this in class with Katie Payne andsubmit it there, or you may do it at the library, in your dormitory, or at home. But it must be submitted before theend of 17 November. Find one article from British Periodicals (1750-1800) that fits the subject of your essay [either(1) or (2) on the reverse of this paper], cite it, and write two sentences on how it compares with Equiano (focus onvolume 1). Remember that I have provided a chapter outline including references to both subjects athttp://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/syllabi/2560/equiano_chapteroutline_slaves.pdf. (Obviously you may also include this inyour paper.)To search British PeriodicalsGo to Booth Library http://www.library.eiu.edu/Resources by subject http://www.library.eiu.edu/eresources/bysubject.htmlHistory http://www.library.eiu.edu/eresources/databases/websites.asp?subcode=AHIBritish PeriodicalsSelect a term to search, say “Press gang”Narrow dates to pre-1800 on the rightClick on an articleExample Citation: The General magazine and impartial review (Sept. 1790): 424. Sentences: Press gangs show that the army and the navy were not really free during Equiano’s time. Here is anexample of a press gang on land, “in a field near Primrose-Hill.” Equiano refers to a press gang onboard ship: “aman of war's boat came alongside to press our people.... Immediately afterwards the press-gang came on board withtheir swords drawn, and searched all about, pulled the people out by force, and put them into the


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