This is where you will find a list of the main themes addresses by each lecture as well as the Identifications for both Midterm and Finals. Also, here you will find the PWP of each lecture.
Wed, April 4: What was slavery?
Slavery as social relationship
Chattel Principle
Andrapodon
Slave as a Stranger, Other
Social Death
Friday, April 6: “Life, Death, and Terror in the Slave Trade”
Captain Tomba
Name Unknown
“Sarah”
Sailor and Pirate Bartholomew Roberts
Captain William Watkins
Captain and Merchant Robert Norris
Merchant Humpry Morice
Monday, April 9: The Spanish and Portuguese in the era of Conquest
Canary Islands
Elmina
Triangular Trade
The South-Atlantic system
Hispaniola
Lavouras (Brazilian sugar cane farms)
Wednesday, April 11: The English Atlantic and changing conceptions of Labor.
Barbados
Chesapeake Area
Indenture Servants
Convict labor
Rice in South Carolina
Sugar Revolution
Industrious Revolution
Friday, April 13, The Evolution of the Slave Ship
Full-rigged ship
Tender Ship
Rhode Island
Barricado
Zumaca
Steamer
Monday, April 16. Slavery in Africa
Trading routes and Kingdoms
Slavery and appropriation of agricultural production
Kinship and Slavery
Female slaves in Africa
Eunuchs
Slave Soldiers
Wed, April 18: Centralized and decentralized African societies 7 Wed Africa Centralization
Gold Coast
Bight of Benin
Asante
Dahomey
Oyo
Friday, April 20: “African Paths to the Middle Passage” 8 Friday commodification
Afonso I, King of Kongo
Bight of Biafra
Antera Duke
Job Ben Solomon
Slave market as agent of commodification
Monday, April 23: African voices on the transatlantic slave trade 9 African voices in Slave Trade
Oral Tradition
Oral History
Thick analysis
Cannibalism as idiom of the slave trade
Wed, April 25: “Olaudah Equiano: Astonishment and Terror” 10 Wed Equiano
Context of Equiano’s life
Equiano’s audience
Equiano’s description of his land
Equiano’s rendering of slavery in Africa
Equiano’s portrayal of the Middle Passage
Debate on Equiano’s birthplace
Friday, April 27: The impact of the slave trade in Africa 11 Friday effects of the slave trade
Depopulation as consequence of the slave trade
Underdevelopment as consequence of the slave trade
Korombo
Legitimate Trade (of goods from Africa to Europe as opposed to slave trade)
Paths to Colonialism in Africa
_________________________________________________________________
SECOND HALF OF THE COURSE: THIS GOES FOR FINAL EXAM
_________________________________________________________________
April 30, Monday: Race and Class intersecting Slavery 12 Race and Class 2018
Slave Societies
Society with Slaves
Bacon’s Rebellion
Slave Codes in the US
Debate Race vs Class
May 2, Wed.: Gender & Slavery 13 gender and slavery 2018
Gender in the Slave Trade
Gender and Slave Labor in plantations
Natural Reproduction of Slavery in the US
Women and Urban Slavery in Latin America
Women and Manumission in Latin America
May 7, Monday: “From Captives to Shipmates” 14 From Captives to Shipmates
Slave labor in ships
Mortality in the voyages
Slave communication in ships
Shipmate relationships
May 9, Wed: Assimilation, Creolization, Transculturation, and Afro-Centrism. 15 Slave Culture 18
Slave Funerals
Black Confraternities in Latin America
Assimilation
Transculturation
Creolization
Afro-Centric views
May 11, Friday , What did shield slaves against slavery? 16 Paternalism Family and Folk Culture 18
Paternalism and slavery in the US
Slave Family in the US
Slave Folk Culture in the US
May 14. Monday: Rebellions in Slave Ships 18 Rebellions slave ships
Frequency of rebellions in slave ships
Geography of rebellions in slave ships
San Juan Nepomuceno (ship)
The Trial (ship)
Amistad (ship)
Cinque
May 16, Wed: Runaway Slave Communities 19 Palenques and quilombos
Esmeraldas
Fort Mose
Brazilians Quilombos
Cuban Palenques
May 18, Friday, Haiti and 19th Century Slave Rebellions 20 19th Century Rebellions
Haiti Slave Rebellion
Consequences of Haiti Slave Rebellion
1812 Aponte Rebellion
1831 Nat Turner Rebellion
May 21, M: British Abolition of the slave trade 21 May Abolition of the Slave Trade in Great Britain
Importance of Britain in abolishing the slave trade
Quakers
The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Petitions against the Slave Trade
Thomas Clarkson
May 23, Wed: “The Long Voyage of the Slave Ship Brooks” 22 May 31 Why Abolition
Economic explanation of abolition
Free labor ideology
Testimonies of sailors
New media supporting abolition
Alliances toward abolition
May 25, Friday: Expansion of Slavery in the USA 23 19th C Second Slavery corto
Second Slavery
The slave-holding republic
Internal Slave Trade in the United States
“Cotton is King”
May 30, Wed, Wed: Abolition in the United States 24 Abolition USA
US Abolitionism
American Colonization Society
Frederick Douglass
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
Sectional Crisis
Monday, June 4: Abolition Brazil 25 19th C Brazil copy
Cycles of Brazilian Slavery
Free black population in Brazil
19th Century Slave Trade in Brazil
Abolition in Brazil
Friday, June 8, Abolition in Cuba 26 Cuba copy
Ten Years War
Patronato System
Ricardo Batrell
1912 Massacre