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Academic Year 2003/2004

Comparative Emancipation
CHUM 316 SP

This course will examine the unfolding of the emancipation process in the Americas. After beginning with the Haitian Revolution, the course will analyze the abolition of slavery in British, Spanish and French Caribbean. The development of emancipation in the United and Brazil will also be examined. Central to our investigation will be the way in which emancipation/freedom was conceptualized and implemented. What were its intellectual and political foundations? To what extent were the perspectives of the former slaves incorporated in the policies of the governments carrying out this process? What relation did these ideologies bear to the ideas that underlay the former slave societies? Moreover, the course interrogates the current trend that ascribes issues confronting Blacks as having resulted primarily from slavery; in other words, the issues course will illustrate that the process of emancipation also bears a direct! relation, both institutionally and conceptually to the contemporary problems confronting Blacks in the New World.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Eudell, Demetrius L.   

Times: ...W... 01:10PM-04:00PM;     Location: CAMS 3

Reserved Seats:    (Total Limit: 20)

SR. major: 8   Jr. major: 7

SR. non-major: 2   Jr. non-major: 1   SO: 1   FR: 1

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal:    Speaking, Writing

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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