Overview
After reading, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War answer the following questions.
Why does French argue that the founding of the modern world occurred when when Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans came into permanent, deep contact?
Why does French argue that there was a profound attempt to erase Africans and people of African descent from the history of the modern world?
Why were European countries so concerned with controlling the transatlantic slave trade?