History, Narrative, and Methods of Perspective: Writing the Atlantic Slave Trade.
This paper traces the shifting value systems that have composed the history of the slave trade; this is, therefore, not specifically about the events that occurred during the activity of capitalism and slavery, geographies and cultures. It is about the texts, reading the narratives as methods for writing about history. As such, this paper considers history as a history of its own invention, through the differently constructed narrative accounts that reflect changing social and cultural value systems, and how these have been written in-relation to the activities of the slave trade. 14.5 pgs. 11 f/c. 9b.
