Write a 4-5pp response to the question below. Your reply should be your own analysis, with an absolute minimum of quotes . Submit the paper AS A WORD DOCUMENT to your TA via NYU Brightspace . Include your name as well as the name of your TA at the top of the first page. Regarding citations, please follow the format/procedure preferred by your TA.
The paper is due Thursday, November 11, by 10:00pm, ET.
Unless otherwise specified, all assignments must be completed to pass the course.
We have now examined slavery, resistance, and freedom throughout the Americas. You have read firsthand, “primary” accounts of these experiences , which provide specific insights into Cuba and North America .
As a result, you are well equipped to make use of primary, secondary, and lecture sources, and to take into account the socio-cultural positioning of Equiano, Douglass, Walker, and de los Reyes Castillo Bueno , in responding to the following:
The Question:
Can you marshal all of the sources to explain, by way of a central argument or thesis, how the experiences of slavery, resistance, and emancipation impacted processes of self-identification for these authors? You may consider “identity” in relation to gender, place of origin, membership in the African diaspora, or some other axis of community/belonging. Be sure to also take into consideration these authors’ distinct sociopolitical contexts.
