HIST 407 - Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World

2020-2021 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 4
Lecture: 4
Non-Lecture: 0
This course examines slave rebellions and resistance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in a wide variety of locales, including the United States, the Caribbean, and South America. Our goals will be to examine what constitutes a slave rebellion, how resistance differed from rebellion, how revolts were organized, how they impacted local communities as well as nation states, and how various forms of resistance altered slaveholder power. This course will give you a sense of what slavery was like in the New World, and how historical events, such as the French and Haitian revolutions, altered slave regimes, and how slave rebels shaped the abolitionist movement. In addition, we will explore how historians have interpreted the fragmentary evidence on revolts and conspiracies.

Prerequisite(s): HIST 302 (HIST 301 also recommended).
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Program Attribute: HAMR, HLAC