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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
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.
 * Article title Louisiana (New Spain)
 * Article Evaluation This article needs more on the section about slavery in Spanish Louisiana and talks about how the enslaved population ballooned over these years.:
 * Sources
 * Din, Gilbert C. Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 1763–1803 . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
 * Spear, Jennifer M. Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
 * Spear, Jennifer M. Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Option 2

 * Article title Slavery in Colombia
 * Article Evaluation The article is pretty in-depth of columbian slavery but could go into more detail about how slavery ended in colombia. :
 * Sources
 * Sessarego, S. (2019). Black Slavery in the Pacific Lowlands of Colombia. In Language Contact and the Making of an Afro-Hispanic Vernacular: Variation and Change in the Colombian Chocó (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, pp. 127-148). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108661782.006
 * Polo Acuña, José & Landers, Jane & Gómez, Pablo & Campbell, Courtney. (2015). Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives. 10.11647/OBP.0052.09.

Option 3

 * Article title- Slavery in New Spain
 * Article Evaluation- The article goes into the slavery in Spanish North America and could go into more about slavery's abolition in mexico and cuba.:
 * Sources- Valdés, Dennis N. “The Decline of Slavery in Mexico.” The Americas, vol. 44, no. 2, 1987, pp. 167–94. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1007289. Accessed 22 Sept. 2023.

Option 4

 * Article title- Slavery in Cuba
 * Article Evaluation- The Article goes into the history of slavery in cuba and could use more in-depth talk about the resistance to slavery in cuba.:
 * Sources
 * Childs, Matt D., and Manuel Barcia, ' Cuba', in Mark M. Smith, and Robert L. Paquette (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (2010; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.013.0005, accessed 22 Sept. 2023.
 * Cuban Slavery Collection (MS 2116). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Option 5

 * Article title- Aponte conspiracy
 * Article Evaluation- This article goes into a slave rebellion that was being planned. There could be more information on how the abolition movement in cuba influenced this. :
 * Sources-
 * Miller, Ivor. “Aponte’s Legacy in Cuban Popular Culture.” Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 37, no. 2, 2018, pp. 126–51. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26875110. Accessed 22 Sept. 2023.
 * Rushing, F. T. (2008). The 1812 aponte rebellion in cuba and the struggle against atlantic slavery. The Americas, 64 (4), 651-653. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/1812-aponte-rebellion-cuba-struggle-against/docview/209593832/se-2