1. Title: End of Year Exam prep
Date: 14/05/2017

2. 1 hour, 5 questions What can we learn from the source?
How far do two sources agree?
How reliable is a source?
How useful is a source?
Use Sources A, B, C, F and G, and your own knowledge to explain how far you agree with the statement.
SUNDAY 28TH MAY 09:00-10:00

3. Topics Triangular trade Middle passage Empire
Conditions for slaves – good/ bad

4. What can we learn from Source A?

5. What can we learn from Source A?
Source A From the source we can learn several things about life as a slave. Firstly we can see………..

6. What can we learn from Source B?

7. 2. How far do two sources agree?
WHAT DOES AGREE MEAN?

8. How far do two sources agree?
Sources H and I describe slave auctions in the West Indies.
Source H
Slaves were treated in most cases like cattle. A man went about the country buying up slaves and he was called a “speculator”. Then he would sell them to the highest bidder. Oh! It was pitiful to see children taken from their mothers’ breasts, mothers sold, husbands sold to a different owner than their wives. One woman had a baby and he wouldn’t buy the baby.
Source I
The slave master made us hold up our heads while customers felt our hands and arms and looked at our teeth, precisely as someone examines a horse which he is about to purchase. All the time the auction was going on one mother was crying aloud. She begged the man not to buy her son unless he also bought her; but the boy was sold on his own to the man who offered the most money
How far do Sources H and I agree about what happened during slave auctions?

9. How far do two sources agree?
Sources H and I describe slave auctions in the West Indies.
Source H
Slaves were treated in most cases like cattle. A man went about the country buying up slaves and he was called a “speculator”. Then he would sell them to the highest bidder. Oh! It was pitiful to see children taken from their mothers’ breasts, mothers sold, husbands sold to a different owner than their wives. One woman had a baby and he wouldn’t buy the baby.
Source I
The slave master made us hold up our heads while customers felt our hands and arms and looked at our teeth, precisely as someone examines a horse which he is about to purchase. All the time the auction was going on one mother was crying aloud. She begged the man not to buy her son unless he also bought her; but the boy was sold on his own to the man who offered the most money
How far do Sources H and I agree about what happened during slave auctions?

10. Example answer:
Overall sources H and I agree about what happened during slave auctions. Firstly they agree that at the auctions the slaves were treated like animals. In source H it says “like cattle” and source I agrees saying “examined like horses”. Therefore they both acknowledge slaves were seen as animals at auctions. Secondly the sources agree how a sale was made. Source H says they would “sell to the highest bidder” and source I says “to…who offered the most money”. They therefore agree the slave was sold to the person who offered the most. Finally the sources also agree that families were sold separately at auctions. Source H says “…he wouldn’t buy the baby” and source I says “the boy was sold on his own”. Therefore they both agree that children would not be sold with their mothers. Overall both sources agree about how slaves were sold at auctions.

11. How far do two sources agree?
Sources G and H describe slave auctions in the West Indies.
Source G
Slaves were lead onto the platform calmly and asked to politely tell the buyers their name. They were asked to tell the buyers their skills and what work they would like to do. Families stood together and would be sold as a family so as not to upset anyone. The person who seemed most caring for the slaves was allowed to purchase them if the slave agreed.
Source H
Slaves were treated in most cases like cattle. A man went about the country buying up slaves and he was called a “speculator”. Then he would sell them to the highest bidder. Oh! It was pitiful to see children taken from their mothers’ breasts, mothers sold, husbands sold to a different owner than their wives. One woman had a baby and he wouldn’t buy the baby.
How far do Sources G and H agree about what happened during slave auctions?

12. How reliable?

13. Source G is from a book by Mungo Park, an eighteenth century explorer in Africa.
The African captives are usually secured by putting the right leg of one and the left leg of another into the same pair of fetters. By supporting the fetters with a string, they can just walk, though very slowly. Every four slaves are likewise fastened together by their necks with a strong rope or twisted thongs and at night extra fetters are put on their hands.
How useful is Source G as evidence of the treatment of Africans when they were first captured?

14. How useful is this source for a historian learning about the British Empire?