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Source 1 - Provisioning the Slave Trade: The Supply of Corn on the Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast

To do on your own: Open source 1 (I recommend opening the full text-PDF) read the abstract and skim through the introductory paragraphs - the final paragraph of the introduction that begins "this article" might help you understand the evidence the author used. Think about what kind of source you're looking at. Answer the following questions:

Questions - Source 1
Source 2 - Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
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