What does Noel mean when he writes “ontologizing the sublime in the black object”?

Please answer these questions. Each Question should be answered in one page in a totally of 3 pages because of 3 questions
1. In David Eltis’ inquiry into the rise of African-based slavery, he claims that economic motivation played a subsidiary role in the phenomenon. If not a rationally conceived decision to pursue a more lucrative trade in black bodies as the central source of forced labor in the New World, what does Eltis point to as a probable cause? (Here, you might take up a few of the concrete points offered by Eltis to attack previous historical arguments, then present what you take to be the essence of his intervention within the discourse). How does his view of “shared ethnicity” support this critique? In Eltis’ perspective, how did religion play a role in the rise and fall of slavery?

2. What does Noel mean when he writes “ontologizing the sublime in the black object”? How might re/interpretations of the Bible by Afro-descended people in the New World be imagined as counteracting negative ontological representations (Williams or Wimbush)? How does Raboteau explain black moral and theological thought as rebellion or resistive?

3. How does Evans explain the concept of “romantic racialism”? Explain how Evans describes the convergence of northern and southern perspectives of Black religion in the South. In what ways did interpretations change following the Civil War? How is romantic racialism related to the “burden” troubling the study of black religion? What is Du Bois’s critique of social scientific discourse on primitivism? What tension does he face when attempting to write about the problem of race as a social scientist?

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