WesMaps - Wesleyan University Catalog 2006-2007       Summer Session       Winter Session       Home       Archive       Search
CS92PROD
Comparative Emancipation
HIST 352
Spring 2007 not offered
Crosslisting: AFAM 351, AMST 311

This course will examine the unfolding of the emancipation process in the Americas. After beginning with the Haitian Revolution, the course will analyze the abolition of slavery in British, Spanish and French Caribbean. The development of emancipation in the United and Brazil will also be examined. Central to our investigation will be the way in which emancipation/freedom was conceptualized and implemented. What were its intellectual and political foundations? To what extent were the perspectives of the former slaves incorporated in the policies of the governments carrying out this process? What relation did these ideologies bear to the ideas that underlay the former slave societies? Moreover, the course interrogates the current trend that ascribes issues confronting Blacks as having resulted primarily from slavery; in other words, the issues course will illustrate that the process of emancipation also bears a direct! relation, both institutionally and conceptually to the contemporary problems confronting Blacks in the New World.

Essential Capabilities: Speaking, Writing
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: None

Last Updated on NOV-09-2024
Contact wesmaps@wesleyan.edu to submit comments or suggestions. Please include a url, course title, faculty name or other page reference in your email ? Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 06459