Subject: History (HIST)

CRN: 46480

Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture

Online

  Kari Zimmerman

By examining slave societies in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States, this course considers the commonalities and differences in African slavery across the Americas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We trace the history of slavery and society through such topics as the Atlantic Trade, plantation v. urban labor, family life, religion and culture, gender, resistance and rebellion, and post-emancipation race relations. Throughout the course, we consider how geographic location and social norms created parallel but distinct systems of slavery. Moreover, we will focus on the sources and methods employed for analyzing those groups that typically lack a historical voice. Focusing on the historiography of slavery, students will gain experience in effectively using evidence to develop an argument, thinking comparatively as a way to analyze information, and learning how to assess or evaluate arguments made by scholars. By the end of the course, students will recognize both the historical conditions of slavery in the Americas and the scholarly treatment of the subject.

4 Credits