History 315 - Slavery in the Americas

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Hiram College

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One of the fundamental factors in the European colonization of the western hemisphere was the development of new systems of slavery and the articulation of new ideologies of racial difference to legitimate their use. African slaves performed the hard manual labor on tropical plantations that enriched a small class of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, and American planters and supplied the world with sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton. Yet many slaves also worked on smaller farms, as skilled artisans, as domestic servants, and as urban laborers. Slavery was not a single system; it was, on the contrary, a collection of practices and ideologies that varied significantly across time and space. From the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, and from Latin America, across the Caribbean, and into North America, slavery appeared in diverse forms. This course will take a comparative approach to the history of slavery and racial ideology in a cross-section of times and places.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HIRAM.EDU

Phone Number:

(330) 569-3211

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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