HIST 3800A Voices of Slavery

A study of chattel slavery in the United States through the words and remembrances of enslaved people from 1600-1877. Colonial and antebellum slave narratives form the evidentiary basis for this course. Topics include African slavery, the slave trade, slave culture, family life, motherhood, methods of resistance, religion, self-emancipation and the Reconstruction period. The course also explores regional differences between slavery in the urban north, the Chesapeake, the South Carolina low-country and rice country. 

HIST-3800 meets with HIST 2800 Historical Methods . A research paper is not required for students in 3800.