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DBQ FOCUS: Atlantic Slave Trade Directions: Use the attached documents to answer the following question. Some of the documents have been edited for the purpose of this essay. A DBQ is meant to assess your ability to understand and think about historical documents. 
Write an Essay that: Has a strong thesis that answers the question. Cites evidence from ALL of the Documents. Analyzes the documents by grouping them in a logical order. QUESTION: How did the absence of humanitarian concerns influence the treatment of slaves during the slave trade between 1450 and 1750 AD? Historical Background Information: As all European monarchies, explorers, and business people hoped, the Americas were full of opportunities to make money. Gold, silver, and other materials could be mined. Sugar, tobacco, and cotton could be grown in large quantities on plantations. In order to make use of these new resources, a reliable supply of laborers was necessary to do the work. The Native American population had dwindled due to disease and war and therefore could not fill the labor positions needed. However, the Europeans quickly found another cheap labor market that already existed, the African Slave Trade. While the use of slave labor had existed for centuries, it was not until the mid-15th century that Europeans began capturing and trading African slaves; right around the same time as the New World was being settled. Between 1450 and 1870 over ten million African people were taken from their homeland as slaves and sent on a tortuous journey to the New World. Document 1 I was snatched away from my native country, with about eighteen or twenty more boys and girls, as we were playing in a field. We lived but a few days’ journey from the coast where we were kidnapped and sent to Grenada… We were soon led out of the way which we knew, and towards evening, as we came in sight of a town. I was soon sent to a prison for three days where I heard the groans and cries of many and saw some of my fellow captives. But when a vessel arrived to conduct us away to the ship, it was a horrible scene; there was nothing to be heard but the rattling of chains, the smacking of whips, and the groans and cries of our fellow-men. Some would not stir from the ground when they were lashed and beat in the most horrible manner. Source: Offobah Cugoano, 18th century, describes his capture into slavery. Student Analysis Explain Cugoano’s experience. Document 2 Source: Thomas Wallace Knox The Boy Travelers on the Congo, 1888 
According to the image, how were slaves treated by their captors. 
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