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Read Destruction of Black Civilization, Chapter 8:
1. What were the characteristics that made the Empires discussed in this chapter great?
2. What were the Mossi states, and what was unique about this empire?
3. How does the Mossi political structure challenge European ideas of being ones to spread ideas and practices of democracy around the world?
4. How were Mulattoes weaponized against African empires?
5. What were some of the causes of the destruction of African empires?
Read Critical Lessons in Slavery and the slave trade pages 1-36
1. What were Europeans first impression of African people?
2. How did the African slave trade get started? What kept it alive?
3. How did Europeans justify the enslavement of Africans? Was the justification made prior
to the beginning of the slave trade or after it? In what manner did the Portuguese establish
themselves on the west coast of Africa? What were their relations with the Africans
there?
4. What events inside Africa itself made her vulnerable to the slave trade? Approximately
how man people were taken from Africa during the years of the African slave trade?
5. What evidence tends to support the assumption that Africans were in the Americas hundreds of years before Columbus?
6. What was the role of the Christianity in the development of the American slave system?
7. Who were Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner? What is the significance or
their acts?
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