| January
22 |
Introduction |
| January 24 |
Old
World Slavery
- •Igor Kopytoff and Suzanne Miers, "African
'Slavery' as an Institution of Marginality," in Slavery in Africa:
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1977). (R)
- •Orlando Patterson, "Slavery and Social
Death," in Lawrence B. Goodheart, Richard D. Brown, and Stephen G. Rabe,
eds., Slavery in American Society, 3rd ed. (Lexington,
MA: D.C. Heath and Co., 1993), 3-12.
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| January 29 |
The
Expansion of Europe
- •Paul Kennedy, "The Rise of the Western
World," in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change
and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House,
1987), 3-30. (R)
- •Curtin, Rise and Fall of the Plantation
Complex, ch. 1
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| January 31 |
Experiments
in the "Fortunate" Isles
- •Alfred Crosby, "The Fortunate Isles,"
in Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
(1986; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). (R)
- •Curtin, Rise and Fall of the Plantation
Complex, ch. 2.
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| February 5 |
In
the New World
- •Ira Berlin, "From Creole to African:
Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland
North America," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd
ser. 53 (1996), 251-88. (Jstor)
- •David Brion Davis, "Sugar and Slavery
from the Old World to the New World," in David Northrup, ed., The
Atlantic Slave Trade (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co., 1994),
25-36.
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| February 7 |
Race
and slavery
- •Winthrop D. Jordan, "The Simultaneous
Invention of Slavery and Racism" in Northup, ed., The Atlantic Slave
Trade, 12-24.
- •Eric Williams, "Economics, not Racism,
as the Root of Slavery," in Northup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade,
3-11.
- •Winthrop Jordan, "American Chiaroscuro:
The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies," William
and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 19 (1962), 183-200. (Jstor)
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| February 12 |
The
Middle Passage
- •Northup, ed., The Atlantic Slave
Trade, 133-74.
- •Curtin, Rise and Fall of the Plantation
Complex, ch. 3.
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| February 14 |
Eighteenth-century
plantation systems
- •Curtin, Rise and Fall of the Plantation
Complex, chs. 4, 6.
- •Ira Berlin, "Time, Space, and the Evolution
of African-American Society," in Slavery in American Society
34-68.
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| February 19 |
Slavery:
"personality" and law
- •Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen
(1946; Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
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| February 21 |
Slavery:
"personality" and control
- •Stanley M. Elkins, Slavery: A Problem
in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (New York: Grosset
and Dunlap, 1959), ch. 3. (R)
- •E. Franklin Frazier, "Significance of
the African Background," in The Negro in the United States,
rev. ed. (New York: MacMillan, 1957). (R)
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| February 26 |
Slavery:
"paternalism" and control
- •Eugene D. Genovese, "On Paternalism,"
in Goodheart, et al., eds., Slavery in American Society, 13-20.
- •Drew G. Faust, "Slave Management," in
Goodheart, et al., eds., Slavery in American Society, 237-46.
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| February 28 |
Culture:
theories of acculturation
- •Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price, The
Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
(1976; Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), read through ch. 3.
- •Video: "Bahia: Africa in the Americas"
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| March 5 |
Culture:
religion
- •Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price, The
Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
(1976; Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), chs. 4-5
- •Video: "Voices of the Orishas"
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| March 7 |
Culture:
family and women
- •Mintz and Price, The Birth of African-American
Culture, chs. 6-end.
- •Herbert Gutman, "Family Life," in Slavery
in American Society, 161-66.
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| March 26 |
Culture:
community and autonomy
- •Peter Kolchin, "Reevaluating the Antebelllum
Slave Community: A Comparative Perspective" Journal of American
History 70:3 (December 1983), 579-601 (Jstor).
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| March 28 |
Social
structure and stratification
- •David W. Cohen and Jack P. Greene, "Introduction,"
in Neither Slave Nor Free: The Freedmen of African Descent in the
Slave Societies of the New World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1972), 1-18. (R)
- •Carl N. Degler, "Slavery in Brazil and
the United States: An Essay in Comparative History," American Historical
Review 75 (1970), 1004-28. (Jstor)
|
| April 2 |
Resistance:
day-to-day
- •Raymond A. Bauer and Alice H. Bauer,
"Day to Day Resistance to Slavery," Journal of Negro History
27:4 (October 1942), 388-419. (Jstor)
- •Eugene Genovese, "The Legacy of Slavery
and the Roots of Black Nationalism," Studies on the Left 6:6
(November-December 1966), 3-26. (R)
|
| April 4 |
Resistance:
maroonage
- •Genovese, From Rebellion
to Revolution, through ch. 2.
- •Film: "Quilombo" (Monday,
April 8, Searles 126, 8pm-10pm)
- Charles E. Chapman, "Palmares: The Negro Numantia"
(Jstor)
- R. K. Kent, "Palmares: An African State in Brazil"
(Jstor)
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| April 9 |
Resistance:
political
- •Genovese, From Rebellion to Revolution,
ch. 3-end.
- •James Oakes, "The Political Significance
of Slave Resistance," History Workshop 22 (1986), 89-107. (R)
|
| April 11 |
The
Haitian Revolution
- •Franklin Knight, "AHR Forum: The Haitian
Revolution," American Historical Review 105:1 (February 2000),
103-15. (online)
- •Curtin, Plantation Complex,
chs. 11-12
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| April 16 |
Capitalism
and abolitionism
- •Eric Williams, "Capitalism and Abolitionism,"
in Northup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade, 184-91.
- •Howard Temperly, "The Idea of Progress,"
in Northup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade, 192-202.
- •Howard Temperly, "Capitalism, Slavery
and Ideology," Past and Present 75 (1977), 94-118. (R)
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| April 18 |
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| April 23 |
Nineteenth-century
plantation systems
- •Richard
Graham, "Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the United States
South in the Nineteenth Century," Comparative Studies in Society
and History 23 (1981), 620-55. (Jstor)
- •Curtin, Plantation Complex,
ch. 13.
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| April 25 |
U.S.
emancipation in world perspective
- •Eric Foner, Nothing But Freedom:
Emancipation and Its Legacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1983), through ch. 2.
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| April 30 |
The
late emancipations: Brazil and Cuba
- •Seymour Drescher, "Brazilian Abolition
in Comparative Perspective," Hispanic American Historical Review
68:3 (August 1988), 429-60. (Jstor)
- •Curtin, Plantation Complex,
ch. 14.
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| May 2 |
Labor
in the post-emancipation era
- •Foner, Nothing But Freedom,
ch. 3.
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| May 7 |
Racial
ideology in the post-emancipation era
- •Rebecca J. Scott, "Defining the Boundaries
of Freedom in the World of Cane: Cuba, Brazil, and Louisiana after Emancipation,"
American Historical Review 99:1 (Februrary 1994), 70-102. (Jstor)
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| May 15 |
Final exam due |