User:HeidiCI26/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Scramble (slave auction)


 * Article Evaluation
 * There is not a lot of information, and the information given is not explained in depth as much as it could be. There's also information that needs to be fact-checked.


 * Sources
 * They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones- Rogers
 * Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande M. Mustakeem
 * David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade
 * Look at sources from Wikipedia's page "The Great Slave Auction", also known as "The Weeping Time".

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Human Branding


 * Article Evaluation
 * Information about slave branding is very limited, the information given is mainly about branding the United States.
 * One problem: we want to focus on enslaved peoples specifically where this Wikipedia article is more broad on why many people get branded or brand themselves.


 * Sources
 * Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande M. Mustakeem
 * David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade

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