AFST 30274 - Slavery in the Atlantic World

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Africana Studies

Description:

This survey course explores the role of coerced African labor in the birth of the Atlantic World. What do we mean by Atlantic World? What do we mean by slavery? What varied and nuanced claims to humanity did Africans make against a dehumanizing labor system? How did sexuality and gender norms shape the experiences of slavery for men and women? Together we will examine slave autobiographies, travel diaries, and pictorial sources to address these questions. We will focus on the peoples of West Africa, Brazil, the United States and the Caribbean who were enslaved from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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