AP/HIST 4830 6.00

In Slavery and Freedom: Blacks in the Americas

This course examines and compares the responses of Africans and their descendants to the experiences of enslavement, racism, colonialism and imperialism. It begins with an examination of sub-Saharan African societies, the sources of enslaved populations transported to the Americas. Major debates around the Atlantic Slave Trade and comparative histories of enslavement in the Caribbean, Brazil, Latin America, the US and Canada are examined. The experiences of free Black people who lived in slave societies, as well as the “degrees” of blackness which emerged in those societies are also examined.