University of West Georgia
Department of History
History 4485/5485:
Comparative Slavery and Emancipation
Spring 2012 Course Website
Dr. Colleen A. Vasconcellos
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Course Syllabus
Equiano Paper Guidelines: Due Thursday, February 2
Douglass Paper Guidelines: Due Tuesday, April 3
Research Paper Guidelines: Due Thursday, April 19
Additional Course Readings
January 26 Readings:
Eric Williams, “Slavery, Industrialization, and Abolition”
David Brion Davis, “Morality, Economics, and Abolition”
January 31 Readings:
Core Ideals of the Enlightenment
Thomas Paine, “African Slavery in America”
Selection from Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia
February 14 Readings:
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, “Family Life in the Slave Quarters”
Alvin Thompson “Enslaved Children in Berbice”
February 16 Readings:
Joseph Holloway, “What Africa Has Given America”
Colin Palmer “From Africa to the Americas”
February 21 Readings:
Runaway Slave Advertisements from Virginia Newspapers
February 28 Readings:
Laura Foner, “The Free People of Color in Louisiana and St. Domingue”
Kathryn Dungy, “Live and Let Live”
April 12 Readings:
Rebecca Scott, “The Boundaries of Freedom: Post-Emancipation Society in Cuba, Louisiana, and Brazil"
April 19 Readings:
Edward Rossiter “The Abolition of Slavery in the Western Hemisphere”