African diaspora
As a result, you are well equipped to make use of primary, secondary, and lecture sources, and to take into account the socio-cultural positioning of Equiano, Douglass, Walker, and de los Reyes Castillo Bueno (for example, three are men; only one is African born; an amanuensis is employed in at least one instance; etc.), in responding to the following:
The Question:
Can you marshal all of the sources to explain, by way of a central argument or, how the experiences of slavery, resistance, and emancipation impacted processes of self-identification for these authors? You may consider “identity” in relation to gender, place of origin, membership in the African diaspora, or some other axis of community/belonging. Be sure to also take into consideration these authors’ distinct sociopolitical contexts.
