AFRAMER 106 - Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade

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Harvard University

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Description:

This course explores a range of interpretive strategies for representing the Middle Passage, chattel slavery, and their aftermaths throughout the Afro-Atlantic World. We explore representational initiatives in slave castles, museums, historic houses and plantations, battlefields, reconstructed heritage communities, memorials, monuments, and other sites of memory in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. How may diverse voices and perspectives on a painful past best be represented? How is the imperative to communicate historically accurate narratives to be balanced with concerns to engage and entertain visitors and to avoid traumatizing audiences? We also explore the more nuanced, embodied forms, including ritual performance, through which the slave trade is remembered or evoked in people's everyday experiences, throughout the Afro-Atlantic world.

Credits:

4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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