Comparative Slavery (History) # 441/541
Welcome to "COMPARATIVE SLAVERY." In this course we will explore the various types of bondage and slavery in African history which existed in different societies. We will then see how these societies were altered with the upheaval of the Atlantic slave trade. We will follow the slaves across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and Central and South America to understand strategies of slave survival and resistance. With the end of the Atlantic Slave Trade we return to Africa to understand how this trade continued to affect Africans who remained on the continent. Lastly, we will continue to follow slavery through its colonial era into its post-colonial and modern-day existence in such regions as Sudan and Mauritania. Videos, novels, and other reading materials will be used to provide us with a deeper appreciation of recent African history. To meet these instructional goals this course utilizes a thematic approach in a lecture-video discussion and presentation format.
READINGS:
AFRICA
AND THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS
Eric
Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina,
1994).
Robert
J. Allison, ed. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Written by Himself (New York: Bedford Press, 1995).
Sandra
E. Greene, Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast A
History of the Anlo-Ewe (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996).
Captain
James Riley, Sufferings in Africa The Astonishing Account of a New England
Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs (New York: The Lyons Press,
1965.)
Hugh
Thomas, The Slave Trade (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997).
John
Glubb, Soldiers of Fortune the Story of the Mamluks, (New York: Stein and
Day, 1973).
Patrick
Manning, Slavery and African Life Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave
Trades (Cambridge, 1993).
Joseph
C. Miller, Way of Death Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade
1730-1830 (Madison: Univ. Wisconsin, 1988).
Paul
E. Lovejoy, Transformations in Slavery A History of Slavery in Africa
(Cambridge, 1988).
Robert
Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slaver Trade (New
York: Basic Books, 2002).
Basil
Davidson, The African Slave Trade (London: Back Bay Books, 1980).
Ronald
Segal, Islam's Black Slaves The Other Black Diaspora (New York: Farrar,
Straus and Girous, 2001).
Edward
Reynolds, Stand the Storm A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade (London:
Alison and Busby, 1985).
Philip
D. Curtin, ed. Africa Remembered Narratives by West Africans from the Era of
the Slave Trade (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1997).
THE
CARIBBEAN
AND LATIN AMERICA
Joseph
M. Murphy, Santeria (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).
Thomas
O. Ott, The Haitian Revolution 1794-1804 (Knoxville: University of TN:
1999).
Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., editor, The Classic Slave Narratives (New York: Mentor
Press, 1987).
Eric
Williams, From Columbus to Castro the History of the Caribbean (New York:
Vintage, 1984).
Hilary
Beckles, A History of Barbados From Amerindian Settlement to Nation-State
(Cambridge, 1990).
Karla
Gottlieb, The Mother of Us All A History of Queen Nanny Leader of the
Windward Jamaican Maroons (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2000).
Moira
Ferguson, ed. The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave Related by
Herself (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan, 1997).
Richard
Price, ed. Maroon Societies Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
C.
L. R. James, The Black Jacobins Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Saint Domingo
Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1963).
Barbara
Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society 1650-1838 (Bloomington: University
of Indiana, 1990).
Vincent
Bakpetu Thompson, The Making of the African Diaspora in the Americas
1441-1900 (New York: Longman, 1987).
Leslie
B. Rout, Jr. The African Experience in Spanish America 1502 to The Present
Day (Cambridge, 1977).
Carolyn
E. Fick, The Making of Haiti The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
(Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee, 1997).
Katia
M. de Queiros Mattoso, To Be a Slave in Brazil (New Brunswick: Rutgers
Univ. Press, 1996).
George
Brandon, Santeria from Africa to the New World the Dead Sell Memories
(Bloomington: Indiana University, 1997).