When slave owners died in the Amazon, custom requires that the descendants make a list of all that person's property and belongings. This list also includes information on slaves owned by the deceased. The slaves owned by the deceased were asked several questions such as: name, age, married life, children, profession, values, injuries, illness and their ethnicity or where they are from. With the information he gathered, Hawthorne was able to trace the root of slaves in America to parts of Africa such as the Bay of Benin, Angola, and Upper Guinea. The relationship between the postmodern inventory documents is in relation to identifying the origin of the slaves since the information recorded refers to the ethnic group of the slaves in