Module Four Activity Narratives
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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Historical Narratives
Locate an additional secondary source relevant to your historical event. Use all four of your
sources (two primary and two secondary) to answer the questions below. Replace the bracketed
text with your responses.
Identify the topic you chose to explore:
“Globalization: Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves”.
Attempt to write the APA style citations for your four sources. Include links to each source. You will not
be penalized for incorrect citation format.
Primary
Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves | DocsTeach. (n.d.). Docsteach.
https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/act-prohibit-importation-slaves
Primary
About this Collection | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-
1938 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress. (n.d.). The Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-
1938/about-this-collection/
About this Collection | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress. (n.d.). The
Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-
project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/
Secondary
The Slave Trade. (2022, January 7). National Archives.
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/slave-trade.html#:~:text=An%20act%20of
%20Congress%20passed,Slaves%22%20took%20effect%20in%201808
.
U.S. Congress: An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, 1807 - Bill of Rights Institute. (n.d.).
Bill of Rights Institute.
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/activities/us-congress-an-act-to-prohibit-
the-importation-of-slaves-1807
Compare the narratives presented in your primary and secondary sources relevant to your
historical event.
The primary and secondary sources all show that even though the act prohibiting the
importation of slaves was passed, there were still an increase of slaves within the United States.
During the 1800s slaves knew that taking them away from their home and importing them into a
foreign country was inhumane and bad but other people saw it differently because slaves were
the reason why they were able to make so much progress when it came to agriculture,
construction, factory work, etc. If you just use their story, only one source you wouldn’t be able
to provide the research of the entirety of the situation. The primary source provided
handwritten letters, documents and facts while the secondary holds information that was
discovered later on by writers and researchers. My primary sources are letters from slaves
before, after and during the act prohibiting the importation of slaves.
Describe one narrative that has significantly influenced the contemporary understanding of your
historical event.
One narrative that has significantly influenced the contemporary understanding of my historical
event would be the first primary source that includes letters written by slaves. Those letters are
proof that slaves were continuously growing in population. Abolitionists at the Constitutional
Convention believed that ending the foreign slave trade was a necessary first step to ending
slavery in America. Yet, they could not have been more wrong. During the twenty years between
1787 and 1807 record numbers of slaves were imported. The children of slaves automatically
became slaves, thus guaranteeing a self-sustaining slave population (Admin, n.d.-b).
Explain how the chosen narrative helps you better understand your historical research question.
Please provide your revised research question and then explain how the chosen narrative helps
you better understand your historical event.
The chosen narrative helps me better understand my historical research question because it
provides proof, facts and handwritten documentation on the idea of the population increase of
slaves.
Why did the enslaved population increase after the Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves was
passed in 1808?
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