ANTH320

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ANTH320

Slavery in the Americas ANTH320 FA

Crosslistings: AFAM320, LAST320

Not Currently Offered

This seminar will examine the development of slavery and racial ideologies in the Americas with explicit comparisons between the slaveholding societies of Latin America, North America and parts of the Caribbean and in-depth discussion of the ways in which these regions have traditionally been contrasted by historians and anthropologists. We will utilize primary texts, historical accounts and theoretical analyses of race and slavery with the goal of understanding both the culture of slavery from different perspectives and the ways in which legal, religious and state institutions shaped and maintained slave systems in the regions under question.

MAJOR READINGS

INCLUDE ALL OR PARTS OF THE FOLLOWING TEXTS:
St. Clair Drake, BLACK FOLK HERE AND THERE
Frank Tannenbaum, SLAVE AND CITIZEN
Winthrop D. Jordan, WHITE OVER BLACK: AMERICAN ATTITUDES
TOWARDS THE NEGRO, 1550-1812
J. William Harris (ed.), SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE SLAVE
SOUTH
Deborah White, AR'N'T I A WOMAN? FEMALE SLAVES IN THE
PLANTATION SOUTH
Frederick Douglass, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK
DOUGLASS
Laura Foner and Eugene Genovese (eds.), SLAVERY IN THE NEW
WORLD
Eugene Genovese, ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL: THE WORLD THE SLAVES
MADE
Herbert S. Klein, AFRICAN SLAVERY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN
Robert S. Conrad, CHILDREN OF GOD'S FIRE: A DOCUMENTARY
HISTORY OF BLACK SLAVERY IN BRAZIL

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Mid-term take home exam: research paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

One class presentation, consistent attendance and participation in discussions. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS ANTH

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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