RWS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emancipation Proclamation, Atlantic Slave Trade

• School: SDSU
• Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
• Course: RWS 200
• Professor: Seth Slater

Document Summary

Beliefs, values, and ways of seeing the world that an author takes for granted. Assumptions are sometimes explicitly stated because authors expect their audience to share their beliefs and values. Look for assumptions the author makes about the audience"s beliefs and values. Look for unstated values, beliefs and premises that are necessary for the author"s claims. Describe what out to follow from an argument, then point out problems or counterexamples. Show that negative or unintended consequences follow from a position/assumption. Over the period of the atlantic slave trade, some 12. 5 million slaves had been shipped from africa and 10. 7 million had arrived in the americas. Well over 90 percent of enslaved africans were imported into the. Only 6 percent were sent directly to british north america. Yet by 1825, there were a quarter of blacks in the new world. On ships, sexes were separated, kept naked, packed closely together, and the men were chained fro long periods.