Africana Studies 241SA - Slavery in the Americas

Spring
2018
01
4.00
Lowell Gudmundson
MW 02:40PM-03:55PM
Mount Holyoke College
103051
Skinner Hall 202
lgudmund@mtholyoke.edu
102688,103051,102523
A course, organized topically rather than geographically or nationally, that offers a comparative analysis of African American slavery as a dominant social system in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the U.S. South. Topics include: why slavery?; sugar and slavery; historical demography; culture and the law; kinship and family; long-run economic development; patterns of race relations; master class and racist ideologies; resistance to slavery; and abolition and its aftermath. Readings include historical and anthropological studies, as well as a major documentary collection on slavery in Brazil.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.