HIST 211: Reimaging the Caribbean: Empire, Commodities, and Labor 1492-1830 (FALL 2024)

There are nine searches your team has to complete.

After you finish each, call over the librarian. If your answer is correct, I'll show you the next question. First team to win gets a prize!

Using the Library catalog, find me a Primary Source published between 1776-1799 that is against abolition of the slave trade

Hints:

• Use boolean like AND and ""
• Use the publication date limits
• Keep the search simple.
• skim beyond the first page of results.
• "against" is a bad search term.
• You will NOT need to open the document to find the answer; the catalog record will tell you what you need to know

Using our core American History Subject Databases for peer reviewed articles,  find me a Peer reviewed article published after 2010 about runaway slaves in New England during the first half of the 18th century.

Hints:

• Use boolean
• use all the limiters in the database
• pay attention to subject terms

Using Caribbean Newspapers, find a notification published in the 1780s for a runaway slave that offers an award.

Hints:

• keep the search simple. you only need a couple search terms
• Use the Publication range filter
• "runaway slave" as a phrase won't work in this scenario.
• To cut down on false hits, you'll need to use a PROXIMITY search instead of the usual AND between your two search terms. Try 15 or 20 words

Have everyone in your group sign up for an ILL account

**Be sure to register as a student, not faculty or staff (for some reason, that is the default setting)**

Using the Library Catalog, find a book about Virginia within the Atlantic Slave Trade. Books containing chapters count too -- the whole book doesn't need to be just about virginia

Hints

• Remember to limit to books in the catalog
• Be sure the book is really about Virginia
• Regardless of the books' title, double check the record in the catalog to see if there is a Virginia specific chapter

Using Colonial Caribbean, find a historic document about enslaved Native Americans before 1800

HINTS:

• keep the search simple
• consider language: they will not say "native amercans"
• use the date range limiter to narrow results

Our very hardest database to use, use GALE's Sabin Americana to find any primary source before 1750 about a slave rebellion.

Hints:

• keep it simple. Use no more than 2 search terms.
• Limit results to before 1750
• Use Proximity searching and try to find the two search terms about 15 words part. Using AND will bring up too many false hits.
• You'll find writers before 1750 are using "negro" not "slave" during this time period; it's a reminder that primary sources use the language of the time, not modern language.