How does the book highlight perspectives that are often overlooked in textbook accounts of the Slave Trade?

Book: Rafe Blaufarb, Inhuman Traffick: The international Struggle Against the Transnational
Slave Trade (New York: Oxford, 2015).

Using multiple examples from Inhuman Traffick (with pg. numbers), write a 4 5 page (double spaced) argumentative essay that responds to the following prompt.

Rafe Blaufarb writes, that the Neirse affair is a story with a cast of hundreds and different episodes taking place simultaneously in different places. As a result Inhuman Traffick is a story about the complexity of interactions in the Atlantic world (pg. 39).

As you write, think about perspective. How does the book highlight perspectives that are often overlooked in textbook accounts of the Slave Trade?
How does the book tie into our discussion of creative / destructive power? Who seems to have the most / least power in the story? Who benefits / suffers from the way those in power use their influence?

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