solved Book requirement: Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the

Book requirement:
Thornton, John K. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. [PAGE 72-128]

Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009. [PAGE 326-419 and 615-660 ]

Topic:
You have just been assigned to write an article on slavery and the Atlantic Trade for the newspaper the  Baltimore American and Commercial Daily Advertiser edited by John L. Carey.. Your purpose is to inform readers about slavery and the slave trade and explain why there is a desire to see both institutions abolished. (In your essay, be sure to discuss the origins of the trade, the horrific conditions of the “Middle Passage,” slavery in the New World, including the advent of the plantation complex and how it relates to slavery, the conditions of the enslaved in the New World and how they lived and worked, and the rise of abolitionism.)