Massachusetts Slave Trade Documents: A Record Linkage Exercise

Take a look at these documents. How are they related? Can you write a story from this evidence?

1. Document #1:  Slave Ship Manifest
2. Document #2
3. Document #3
4. Letter by William Fairfield, Jr. informing his mother of his father's death at the hands of an on-board slave insurrection
5. Obituary for William Fairfield in the "Salem Mercury", 1789.
6. List of deaths, 1789 (East Church Records)
7. Diary of Rev. William Bentley, 1789
8. Diary of William Bentley, Sept. 23, 1788
9. Bentley's diary, Sept. 28, 1788