Transatlantic Slave Trade⼁Critical Literacy

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post! Today we did our reflection sessions, this week I decided to summarise a text that I have read for our units in Social Studies. This text was about the transatlantic slave trade. 

Title: Transatlantic Slave Trade 

The text was an informational website that explained how the transatlantic slave worked, its impacts and how many slaves had suffered throughout the years. It also mentioned the names of the passages in the slave trade, what the slaves experienced during that time and how they survived. 

Text Type: Article 

Text Creator: Thomas Lewis

Text Purpose: To inform viewers of what happened during the Transatlantic slave trade. 

Whose views are excluded or privileged in the text?

In this text, the merchants who took the slaves were very privileged as they were gaining money and manufactured goods from when they trade the slaves with their buyer. This kind of view was very far from what the slaves experienced, they were treated as people who were only there to do work and they lived a very hard life when they were transported to their states. The citizens in America are also very privileged as they were the owner of their slaves. In this situation the slave is in a worst situation because they were owned by that specific person, meaning that person can do anything they want to the slave. Children of the slaves also suffered, they were taken away from their families and separated never to see again. Slaves didn't have a say in any of this, their views were excluded and if they escaped they would be given a punishment from their owner. While the owners, merchants and citizens were very privileged; living in a house, eating proper food, studying ans living their lives. 

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