Short and Long Answer Questions
(assignment 20)

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Timing


This homework should take you 45 minutes or so to do. 10 minutes to do the textbook reading, 8 minutes for question 1 & 2; 7 minutes to read the primary source and 20 minutes to do question 3 - 6.



1) What devestating and unintended consequence emerged in Africa after the abolition of the trans-atlantic slave trade and why did it emerge?

2) Once a supplier of slaves, what had Africa become 1850 -- just eleven years before the American Civil War?

Questions on p. 175 - 176 of David Norhtup, "Views of Osei Bonsu, 1820"

Reading notes: The reading come from Joseph Dupuis' account of his time in the Asante Kingdom as the first British consul in Kumasi, just a few years after the British have outlawed the slave trade. In the passage you read, Dupuis recounts the views of Osei Bonsu, then King of the Asante.

Some words from the reading you might not know:

"palaver": derived from the Portuguese word, "palavra," meaning speech or talk. It became a general term on the West African coast to describe negotations or conferences between Europeans and Africans.

"fetische": Also derived from the Portuguese, meaning "Spirit"

3) Where does Bonsu believe the source of legitimacy for laws to be found? Be sure to include a direct quotation to support your answer for this question.

4) How and why does Bonsu's conception of the nature of laws lead him to be puzzled by the British decision to end the slave trade?

5) Does Bonsu view the slave trade as immoral? As damaging to his people? Be sure to include direct quotations to support your answers for this question.

6) What does Bonsu offer to the European "captains" and why?