Slavery in North America ((3))

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This course is a comparative investigation into the practice of slavery in North America from 1500-1900, focusing on Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. Emerging in tandem with ideas about race and difference, Atlantic Slavery transformed the economic, social, and political systems of North America. Alongside this newer form of slavery, older forms of captivity persisted and shifted in response to the growth of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Throughout the growth of slavery, enslaved people themselves actively resisted and contested these processes in multiple ways.The course will place an emphasis on sources created by enslaved people themselves whenever possible. In comparing slaveries across time and location, this course offers a lens into understanding both the experience of enslaved people themselves and the largest histories of capitalism and modernity wrought by slavery in North America. (Americas/Identities)