In teaching the transatlantic slave system, I want to share a few individual stories that can be used in the classroom. The first is Belinda Sutton, an enslaved woman taken from the Gold Coast (today’s Ghana) around 1724
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In a petition for reparations from 1783, Sutton describes her childhood, her enslavement and transport across the Atlantic, and her experiences in the Americas.
royallhouse.org
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I like to use her brief description of the Middle Passage in comparison with other enslaved Africans’ description of the crossing.
You can read more about Belinda’s Sutton’s life
enslaved.org
enslaved.org
You can read more about her petition
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royallhouse.org
And you can read more about how I use her petition in teaching the transatlantic slave system
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liberatingnarratives.com
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