Now that you've done research in reference sources, you're ready to move on to more specific sources, get more details, and build your argument.
This is where secondary sources comes in.
Remember, the goal isn't to read an entire book.
Instead, you'll be reading specific pages or sections within a book that relate to your topic. Use the index and table of contents to help guide you to those pages.
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The following Reserve Carts in the MMR may also have books that will help you: Commodities and Inventions (Teal Dots).
Crossings: Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Routledge History of Slavery
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Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression
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A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery
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To Make Our World Anew: a History of African Americans To 1880
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You can also find secondary sources on websites. However, not all websites are trustworthy and worthy of citation in your academic work. Be sure to consider who is responsible for a website, when and where it was created and updated, and for what purpose.
Always ask your teacher or a librarian to help you vet a website before citing it in your paper.
Below are some credible websites with secondary source-type information that you can use in your research:
There are 50 books on the Commodities and Inventions reserve cart. They are all marked with TEAL dots on the spine.
Rules of Reserves
1. Reserve books are available on a first-come, first-serve basis
2. You can check out ONE book from the reserve cart at a time for ONE night. You must return the book to the library before school starts the next day.
3. You must check the book out from a librarian BEFORE leaving the library with it.
4. To return reserve books, leave them on the Help Desk next to the "Return Reserve Books Here!" sign. Do not take any returned books the Help Desk without checking them out from a librarian.
5. If you don't want to take a book home with you, you can scan specific pages to print out or email to yourself using the book scanner. Ask a librarian to show you how to use the book scanner.
