Essay Exam Question:
Discuss the struggles for freedom and strategies of resistance employed by enslaved and free people living in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World.
• Begin your answer with a discussion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the earliest Black residents of colonial North America.
• Discuss the institution of slavery and how it differed in various geographical areas and time periods.
• Consider including examples from multiple time periods covered in class.
• Consider including examples from a variety of geographical areas covered in class. • In your answer be sure to discuss the institution of slavery, legal developments,
slave rebellions, and Ira Berlin’s “generations”.
