Process Paper
Our history day project titled “1619: The beginning of African slave trade to colonies” features the actual slavery trades that had went on through the time of 1619-1865.The slavery trade lead to many changes throughout history and it had caused many issues and different changes in history. With slavery trade happening it changed many things and it made many slaves have freedom and many more rights that they did not have before.
While researching about the beginning of African slave trade to colonies we learned many things about slavery that we did not know about before so this made us make up our minds on doing our project on this topic. In fact, we started to look more into more information on the beginning of African slave trade to colonies which was when we found more and more information on the beginning of African slave trade that we didn’t know about before which interested us more. We focused more on finding out more on how the slaves lived in what types of conditions and how they were treated. As we researched more on the conditions of how the slaves were treated we found more information on how the slaves would be transported and what they would be exchanged for and such.
There were many different ways that helped us setup our project and conduct our research. One of the main ways that we set up our project was by setting ourself goals to reach to complete our project. Another way was by setting ourself dates on when to finish certain parts of our projects as of when to complete all of our research and when to set up our project. We also found it to be helpful that as we were doing our project we would get our work reviewed by others. We also would fix any mistakes that we would catch in our work and this helped us improve our work.
During some parts of our project, we ran into some hard situations and we also had some easy ways to going on our project. One of the toughest parts of our project were when we had to confirm some of our research and certain dates to get the correct information. One of the easiest parts of our project was setting up our website and conducting all of the information together. We found it to be tough on finding some primary sources and images due to the year that this happened at. We also found it easy to find information on the slavery trades and how the slavery ended.
Our project topic of the beginning of African slavery trade taught us many things that we did not know about and we also learned on how long this continued for and how long it took for this to end. Our research on this project was easy and we did not struggle as much as we expected that we would. From this project we learned many things.