Slavery in the Atlantic World

Catalog description

The emergence and decline of racial slavery in the Atlantic World from 1492 to 1888 is the primary focus of this course. Students will learn to understand and articulate the major forces that facilitated the development and collapse of modern slavery in the Atlantic Work and how the residual impact of this system continues to shape contemporary race relations and systems of power at the present. There will be an emphasis on the interrelationship between race, gender, and class in New World plantation societies as evolving systems of power in North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean over time including some discussion of the Black Atlantic. The class serves as a required course for students minoring in race and ethnic studies.