Explain the rationalizations and justifications given for the Atlantic Slave Trade, the expansion of slave trade in the Americas and how these trades produced Chattel slavery in the United States. Your description must be clear, with specific examples, as to how the Europeans were able to acquire the slaves and how it became legal to own these Blacks as personal property.
Paper details:
Essay #1. Critical Analysis. February 29th, 2016. Essay Requirements and Re-write opportunity for this essay:
As explained in the syllabus, this essay assignment is divided into three main parts:
(1) You will first write an essay that is fully responding to the assignments in this essay file. You must have fully responded to all the assignments given to qualify for the re-write opportunity. In other words, the rewrite opportunity is not for extending the due date by submitting an incomplete essay, but for you to improve your essay. The instructor reserves the right to deny a student this opportunity based on this policy (explanations will be given). You must submit your initial file no later than the due date posted. Please pay particular attention to this requirement because you can lose up to 20% of your semester grades if your initial essay does not fully respond to all assignments.
(2) You will participate in evaluating another student’s essay. You will have up to one week to post a feedback to an assigned student’s essay after the closing of the initial posting of these essays. Guidelines for how to evaluate the other student’s essay will post after the original essay posting closes. This evaluation process will be graded. During this evaluation process, you too therefore will receive comments from another student to help you improve your essay. You must participate in the scheduled review workshop to qualify for the re-write opportunity – no exceptions.
(3) Your will then re-write your essay to incorporates the feedback given, what you learned from the other student’ essay, your views and analysis. You will be given one week from the feedback due date to write your Final Peer-reviewed Essay.
Essay Highlights:
The slave trade, systems of slavery, slavery continuance and abolishment policies varied greatly geographically within North America. These variations produced competing ideologies and inconsistent Federal policies on slavery in the United States of America up to the start of the Civil War – resulting in the war being, in part, over the issues of slavery and complicated by race issues.
The end of the civil war brought to the nation various efforts by individuals, organizations and the government to give the freed slaves opportunities to become productive members of the country. From the beginning of the Reconstruction well into the 20th century, the nation continued to address issues of slavery, freedom, the reconstruction and other new problems specific to African Americans. Most of these issues continue to plague African Americans today.
One avenue that became necessary for the African American community to solve the problems of the 20th century was leadership by African Americans. In their own ways, these leaders wanted what was best for the nation at that time.
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Assignments:
(1) Explain the rationalizations and justifications given for the Atlantic Slave Trade, the expansion of slave trade in the Americas and how these trades produced Chattel slavery in the United States. Your description must be clear, with specific examples, as to how the Europeans were able to acquire the slaves and how it became legal to own these Blacks as personal property.
(2) Referring mostly and specifically to the resources used in this class, analyze the root causes of the problems and issues that faced African Americans from the beginning of the Reconstruction Period well into the 20th century. From how you now know about the true nature of Chattel Slavery in America, how would you argue that the issues of slavery and race continued to complicate African American identity, freedom and justice well into the 20th century? You may also give differing reason as to why African Americans collectively continued to face issues specifically related to their identity well into the 20th century.
(3) Referring mostly and specifically to W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk (1903), write a critical analysis essay that first highlights how Du Bois formulates the problems and issues African Americans faced at that time. Your essay should then examine his proposed solutions in terms of completeness by analyzing how the system of slavery had shaped both the races; the economic structure of the nation; practicability; and the competing nature of his solutions to those proposed by other leaders at that time. Specific examples and quotes especially from the resources used in this class must be used in your analysis. Include page numbers even for online resources.
Organization:
Overall, your essay should reflect your understanding of the issues concerning African Americans well into the 20th century as exposed to you in the resources used in this course. The title of your paper should reflect the topics in your essay and should be made clear in the introduction. Your introduction should provide a brief “significance” of the subjects in your essay and should also lead the reader to a clear understanding of what the essay is about and provide a plan of analysis. The body of your paper should respond to the assignments by clearly developing, defending and analyzing your arguments using ideas found in the resources used in this class and your ideas. The concluding paragraph(s) should not mirror the introduction, but strengthen the body of your essay while pointing out possible problems with your analysis.
Due Dates:
(1) Essay #1 Original Post is due in D2L’s “Dropbox: Essay #1 – Original Post” link no later than 11:59 pm Monday March 28th, 2016. There will be no extension of this due date to anyone except for circumstances beyond control (documentation will be required). Please understand the Late/Missed work Policy posted in the syllabus. Late essays will not be accepted and you will receive a grade of zero for this essay. Essays sent by E-mail will not be accepted, no exceptions.
Please submit either a “.doc” or “.docx” file. Other file formats (including “.pdf” files) will not be accepted – no exceptions.
(2) Essay #1 Peer Review Period: Starts at 12:01 am on Tuesday March 29th, 2016 and ends at 11:59 pm Monday April 4th, 2016. There will be no extension of this due date to anyone – no exceptions. Details on how to conduct the workshop will be given on Tuesday March 29th, 2016.
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(3) Essay #1 – Peer Reviewed Rewrite is due in D2L’s “Dropbox: Essay #1 – Peer
Reviewed Rewrite” link no later than 11:59 pm Monday April 11th, 2016. There will be no extension of this due date to anyone except for circumstances beyond control (documentation will be required). Please understand the Late/Missed work Policy posted in the syllabus. Late essays will not be accepted and you will receive a grade of zero for this essay. Essays sent by E-mail will not be accepted, no exceptions.
Please submit either a “.doc” or “.docx” file. Other file formats (including “.pdf” files) will not be accepted – no exceptions.
Format:
? Typed and double-spaced with a one-inch left margin.
? Use black ink and (around) size 12 of popular fonts.
? Type the course/section, title of your essay, and your name on the top center of the first
page. A cover sheet is not required.
? Page numbers should be on the bottom of the pages.
? Although the use of the Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines in citing your
work is preferred, any popular methods will be accepted (be consistent).
? The length of your essay is not as important as your essay responding to the assignments.
Only as a guide, your essay should be around 10 pages long. Grading:
According to the syllabus,
Essay #1 – Original Post worth 15% of your final grade.
Essay #1 – Draft Workshop worth 10% of your final grade. You must qualify to participate. Essay #1 – Peer Reviewed Rewrite worth 10% of your final grade. You must qualify to participate.
Please understand the requirements for the three parts of this essay as explained in the syllabus. These requirements will be enforced – no exceptions
The essay will be graded, in part, based on the content and context of your responses to the assignments. Your grade in the paper will also be based on your integration of the material in the text books and other resources used in this course; your opinions and on your writing skills. The breakdown of the points in the essay assignments (out of 100%) is:
The title and writing skills: 5% each;
The introduction and conclusion: 10% eac

The body of your essay is to integrate the three sections in the assignments (1, 2, and 3) into a continuous essay:
1st section of the assignments 15% 2nd section of the assignments 15% 3rd section of the assignments 40%
Comments from Support Team: Discipline: AFAS 220 (Introduction to African American Studies)