Module Four Activity Bias
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HIS 100 Module Four Activity Template: Bias in Primary Sources
Locate an additional primary source relevant to your historical event. Use it and the primary
source you identified in a previous module to answer the questions below. Replace the
bracketed text with your responses.
Source One
Conduct source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your first primary source and include a link to it. You
will not be penalized for incorrect format.
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/
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
Federal Writers’ Project
What was the author’s position in society at the time the primary source was created?
o
A writer
When was the primary source created?
o
The 1930s
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
Work Projects Administration (WPA)
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
African Americans
Why was the primary source created?
o
To get firsthand interviews and information from Slaves about their experience.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
Slaves from in the Depression years between 1936 and 1938.
Source Two
Conduct a source analysis on a primary source relevant to your historical event.
1
Attempt to write the APA style citation for your second primary source and include a link to it.
You will not be penalized for incorrect format.
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.
Respond to the following questions:
Who authored or created the primary source?
o
National Archives
What was the author’s or creator’s position in society at the time the primary source was
created?
o
Educator
When was the primary source created?
o
2022 January 7
Where was the primary source created, released, or publicized?
o
National Archives
Who was the intended audience for the primary source?
o
People interested in the Slave Trade details and facts.
Why was the primary source created?
o
To shed light on new facts and information found out about the Slave trade.
Whose perspective(s) is presented in the source?
o
Isaac Sherman and Schooner Charming Sally
Both Sources
Analyze the primary sources relevant to your historical event for the presence of bias.
The bias that is presented in my primary resources is that the researchers and analyst were
speaking as if they were on the side of the slaves. They didn’t provide information from the slave
owners or individuals who constructed the slave trade itself.
Compare how your historical event is represented in your primary sources.
My historical event is represented in my primary sources by providing firsthand information
about the act itself, the slave trade, the idea of it all from the slaves and certain details that
weren’t discovered till later on.There is a current event article about the last survivor of the
transatlantic slave trade who was discovered. Matilda McCrear lived until 1940 and died in
Selma, Alabama at the age of 83. This is connected to my historical research question because if
the Act of prohibiting Importation of Slaves was passed in 1808 then how was Matilda McCrear
abducted from Africa and brought into the United States? This is proof that the slave trade
continued to expand even after the act passed.
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