Analyze the ORIGINS OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE 1441-1750 from MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES with AFRICAN VOICE CENTERED — Portuguese 1441 Lagos + Elmina Castle 1482 + Kongo conversion paradox + Asante/Dahomey/Oyo polities + Middle Passage demographics 12.5M embarked / 10.7M arrived — anchored in Teaching Hard History K-12 framework + 1619 Project pedagogical materials + Equiano 1789
Exercise
Difficulty 2
~5 min
hist.g7.s.ex_41
Matching
Prompt
Match: (1) Olaudah Equiano ___ (2) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo ___ (3) Phillis Wheatley ___ (4) Afonso I of Kongo ___
How it's presented
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Answer criteria
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matching
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- Igbo-born, kidnapped age 11, 1789 Interesting Narrative
- Senegambian Fulbe Muslim scholar, kidnapped 1730, 1734 Memoirs
- Senegambia-born, enslaved Boston, first published African American poet 1773
- Kongo king r.1509-1542 Catholic + Portuguese-educated + 1526 letters protesting enslavement
Hints
- Equiano sold ~10,000 copies of Narrative in lifetime.
- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo refutes 'cultureless captive' framing — Muslim scholar fluent in Arabic.
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing dates Diallo (1734) and Equiano (1789)
- Treating any of them as 'representative slave'
Used in lessons