1. Using Caribbean oral traditions, material culture and diaspora archives together exemplifies:
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  1. methodological weakness
  2. the multi-source methods needed where colonial written records are biased or silent
  3. plagiarism
  4. antiquarianism
2. When a CAPE essay asks you to "assess" an interpretation, the strongest answers:
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  1. summarise the textbook only
  2. weigh evidence for and against the interpretation and reach a reasoned judgement
  3. avoid taking any position
  4. quote at maximum length
3. Quantitative studies of the slave trade (e.g., the transatlantic slave trade database) allow historians to:
Historiography
  1. replace all documents
  2. estimate volumes, routes and mortality with far greater precision
  3. end debate forever
  4. ignore human experience
4. The nationalist historiography that emerged with figures like Eric Williams sought to:
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  1. glorify empire
  2. write the Caribbean's past from within, centring its own peoples and interests
  3. abolish archives
  4. copy imperial accounts
5. An "imperial school" account of Caribbean history typically:
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  1. centres the enslaved
  2. narrates the region from the standpoint of European empires and administrators
  3. uses only oral sources
  4. begins in 1962
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