HIST 670 Slavery in America & the Atlantic World to 1865
This course examines America's place in the Atlantic World (c. 1450-1877) through the institution of racial slavery and the lived experiences of forced migrants in the African Diaspora. While the geographic focus is North America and the Caribbean, we also give serious attention to Latin America and Africa. Our emphasis is on exploring the most important and innovative scholarship in these dynamic transnational fields while also engaging longstanding scholarly debates and frameworks. Subjects include: African kingdoms, the slave trade, intercultural encounters, cultural change during migration, religious experience, ethnicity/ethnogenesis, ideas of race and gender, everyday life and the family, the economics of slavery and labor, the politics of slavery, free blacks and their activism, abolition and emancipation movements (and religion's role), and the effects of slavery on American society.