Atlantic Slavery

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From the early 1500s through the 1860s, some 12 million enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. In the plantation societies of the Americas, Africans and their descendants struggled to survive under brutal conditions, negotiating new social, economic, and political realities and navigating new relationships with one another and with their European enslavers. In this seminar students will examine enslaved people’s everyday lives and survival strategies by reading a wide range of primary and secondary sources and by conducting original research on topics they will choose in consultation with the professor. Course Attributes: History-Asia,Africa,LA Region, Peace & Justice Studies Minor College of Arts & Sciences History