History 397TS - ST-TransatlSlaveTrade1444-1867

From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, enslaved Africans made up almost eighty percent of the total number of arrivals in the Americas. In this course we will explore the sources, interpretations, and legacies of "the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history." Based on our readings of historical scholarship and documents, and with a particular concern for individual and collective experiences, we will gauge the economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics and consequences of the transatlantic slave trade in Europe, Africa, and the Americas over more than four centuries.