y making men, women, and children into commodities, enslavement destroyed lineages,

a struggle to define a social being that connected the past and presen

binding, have often made a social world out of death itself

ng her fellow captives as an "oracle of literature," an "orator," and a "song stress," she is anonymous to historians because the sailor on the slave ship who described her death, the young William Butterworth, did

it featured none of the regular correspondence and return journeys that figured so significantly in the dispersals of voluntary emigrants

we find a stark contest between slave traders and slaves, between the traders' will to commodify people and the captives' will to re-main fully recognizable as human subjects.

"free trade. "

ither more or Jess appropriate subjects of inquiry than those from the Gold Coast, or even than migrants like those from Mada-gascar

systematic collection and evaluation of quantitative data that councils, boards, and other bodies charged with oversight of the nation's commerce fulfilled their task, that be-ing

five slave ships entered the river in the space of one week

passive voice

memory-scapes

Brooks contraststhe chronological depth and vast breadth of Native geographies with English colonialattempts to contain Natives by seizing their land, restricting them to reservations, forc-ing them into internment camps and slavery, and defining them away. She also reaf-firms a critical point that has emerged in the last twenty years of

in every stage of the scholarly process

a cyclical activity of recalling and relaying in which we are collectively engaged

but experience with over one hundred years of trade, cul-tural and linguistic exchange, as well as violence, disease, and captivity with “Englishmen” and other western Europeans on the coast

Saunkskwa, or “sa-chem-squa,” was not simply the word for spouse but rather the word for female leader, suggesting that this woman who “entertained” him was perhaps more than Conbitant’s wife, particularly given that by local custom she would have come from a leadership family

And sharing a schedule really works: the mix of peer pressure, habit, and ritual creates a powerful culture of productive writing.

Academics and scholars have matured, of course, so when we conform to group pressure we call it adhering to best practices, consulting stakeholders, and seeking accountability.

nvolves voluntary associationand the lack of hierarchy

make writing feel less solitary, and stave off the darkness of binge writing.

Land u sed to be own ed by black folks." Now mterva s an ec are, agribusiness owned everything as far as the eye could see.

evalued by a racial calculus and a political arithmetic that were en-trenched centuries ago.

wanted to engage the past, knowing that its perils and dangers still threatened and that even now lives hung in the balance.

I repre-sented what most chose to avoid: the catastrophe that was our past, and the lives exchanged for India cloth, Venetian beads, cowrie shells, guns, and rum.

They summoned me, "obruni, obruni, " as if it were a form of akwaaba (welcome), reserved just for me. As the words weaved their way through the crowd and landed on me, I imagined myself in their eyes: an alien tightly wrapped in the skin of a blue rain slicker, the big head bursting from its navy pod.

cared about the literary quality of her letters.

o begin with, time for literary production was brie( I cant rock the cradle and write too

hiteness depended upon specific ideas about purity.

oth righteous and self-righteous Americans to think hard about problems like overty and_ immigration

gleaned everything I could from vital records, city directories, and village maps, then pieced together context from town records, newspaper reports, and regi-mental histories

oorer families like Eunice's moved often

met Eunice in the course of researching relationships between white women and black men in the nineteenth century

The Research Journal is the document where you’ll be recording your research progress, testing out ideas, writing down key quotes, etc. It will become your prospectus. You’ll be sharing it with me at the end of Week 3 and at the end of Week 6.