Naming Null Values
The table below contains all the variables of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Suppose you are [see group assignments below]. How would the TSTD be of use to you? How would it not be of use?
Group One
You are a historian hoping to write a book about the economic impact of the transatlantic slave trade on West Africa.
Group Two
You are an artist (painter) whose work focuses on the relationship between the history of slavery and the present.
Group Three
You work as a hospital administrator but are interested in the transatlantic slave trade because you are a descendant of enslaved people and want to learn about their lives.
Group Four
You are a playwright. You are doing research on behalf of a play you’re writing about Phillis Wheatley.
Group Five
You are a law professor in the UK writing an op-ed arguing that the British monarchy should pay reparations to descendants of Africans trafficked to the British Caribbean during the transatlantic slave trade.
Group Six
You are a historian interested in understanding the social world of the transatlantic slave ship.
Detail of “A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)” (2019) by Firelei Báez.