This course has two sets of learning objectives. First,
undergraduate students will develop a broad knowledge of the main
issues, themes, and debates surrounding the history of race and
slavery in the Americas, understanding how the patterns of
slaveholding regimes influenced the experience of enslaved
peoples in various geographic regions and time periods.

Second, undergraduate students will learn to critically read and
interpret a variety of primary and secondary sources from the
perspective of a historian. For primary sources, they will learn
to ask what perspectives the sources highlight or marginalize, to
pinpoint authors’ implicit understandings, and to acknowledge
historical uncertainties. The class will work with various
primary source databases available online. Students will then
integrate their knowledge of primary sources into an original
historical analysis with a clear research question. They will use
both primary sources and reliable secondary literature to write
an original research paper with a convincing argument that relies
on evidence to defend their claims.

1.	Sources, voices, and agency in the study of slavery
2.	African and European origins
3.	The trans-Atlantic slave trade
4.	The Middle Passage
5.	Capitalism and slavery
6.	Labor regimes
7.	Slaves, "personality," and the law
8.	African culture in the Americas
9.	Resistance and revolution
10.	Gendering slavery
11.	Abolition and emancipation
12.	Post-abolition racial legacies
13.	The construction of race

All students must adhere to the university honor code and
academic honesty policy.