The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 49

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"For a historical appreciation [of the slave trade],one must turn to the fairly abundant but problematic writing of sixteenth and seventeenth century visitors from Europe,and a few central African texts. Many of the [European] visitors,especially missionaries,were hostile to African religious ideas and practices,which caused,which caused them to misrepresent African religion,but these early observers had the tremendous advantage of witnessing the religions at first hand during the period of the slave trade. Contemporary eyewitness testimony,for all its problems,is still [central to] the historians' craft."
Linda Heywood,Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora,2002
-European analyses of the culture of Africa would likely have emphasized

• A) cultural and religious differences as justification for the slave trade.
• B) the economic efficiency of African slavery.
• C) the inferiority of Africans as compared to Native American laborers.
• D) the importance of cultural diversity in long-term settlements.

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Definitions:

Middle Class

A social class between the upper and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families.

Internal Slave Trade

The buying and selling of slaves within the borders of a country, notably within the United States before the Civil War.

Southern Slaveholders

Individuals or families in the southern United States who owned and profited from the labor of enslaved African Americans before the Civil War.

Manhood

The state or period of being a man, often associated with attributes such as strength, maturity, and responsibility.