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Write a paper of approximately five pages that answers one the following essay question. In answering the question utilize sources from this course, including Inhuman Traffick and other sources on the Transatlantic slave trade:

Consider an academic article found using either Foxhunt or JStor from a peer-reviewed journal about the final century of the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a point of comparison with Inhuman Traffick. Using the graphic history and the accompanying primary sources, assess the theories of an expert in the field. Use a secondary source like the one by David Eltis below and scrutinize its theses and arguments in light of the specific examples present in the book by Blaufarb and Clarke. Develop a debatable and sophisticated thesis in response to the points of tension between your sources.

David Eltis, “Was the Abolition of the U.S. and British Slave Trade Significant in the Broader Atlantic Context?” William and Mary Quarterly 66:4 (2009): 715-736

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Assess the Theories of an Expert in the Field
Thesis Statement
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade can be best understood using a combination of expert-theories,
graphic history and historical context into the institution of slavery.
Inhuman Traffick has been categorized as a comic book that addresses the transatlantic
trade. It is a first time story of the events regarding the enslavement and freedom which took
place in the Atlantic World. The book, written by Blaufarb and Clarke begins with the 1892
events of the west coast in Africa. First, Blaufarb and Clarke offers a recapture of Neirsee, which
is a slave ship that had been previously taken by the British Navy in a bid to end inhuman
traffick. The book progresses and ends with the liberation of African passengers that had been
sold to slavery, particularly in the French Caribbean. The book offers the reader a human feel
regarding the history of the trade and the efforts that were taken to suppress the vice. One of the
aspects addressed in the Inhuman Traffick The International Struggle against the Transatlantic
Slave Trade: A Graphic History, is the tragic history of the thematic and geographical contexts
of the areas that the trade took place including Africa, Europe, Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean.
The story in the book is situated in familial, diplomatic, social, and economic military spheres.
One of the advantages of Inhuman Traffick is that it is an example of how history is done by

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offering an explanation of how documents moved through space and time, between ships,
colonial buildings, African outposts, ministerial powers and how they ended up archived in
modern day France and Britain. Inhuman Traffick The International Struggle against the
Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History is a story that follows the shop, crew and capt...


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