History 270 - COLQ:ASPECTS OF AMERICAN HIST

Topics course. Historical debates surrounding racial identities, particularly of African- descended people, throughout the Atlantic World, tracing the experiences of Black people from Western Africa and the Middle Passage to the British colonies, the United States, Haiti and the British Isles. This course will also consider the experiences of other forced laborers in the Atlantic World, including indigenous Americans and Asians. The lives of non-white people as slaves, indentured servants, sailors, rebels, intellectuals and even passengers on the Atlantic. A study of migrations, citizenship, self-directed travel, resistance, organization and writings as they relate to freedom and nationalism movements from the Revolutionary Age through the Age of Emancipation. While the focus is on African-descended people and theorization of the "Black Atlantic," other intellectual continuities are examined.

Topic: Race in the Atlantic World.