Slavery and Slave Life in the American South, 1619-1865 (HI3T1)
'A Slave Auction'. Source: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb (1849), p. 201.
Tutor: Dr Liana Valerio
Email: Liana.Valerio@warwick.ac.uk
Reading list
Seminar Reading and Questions
- Term 1
- Week 1: Introduction and Orientation
- Week 2: African society and the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Week 3: The origins and codification of slavery
- Week 4: Colonial slavery: Challenge and response
- Week 5: The Impact of the Revolution
- Week 7: Internal slave trade
- Week 8: The spread of slavery to the towns
- Week 9: Rebellions
- Week 10: Abolitionism and the end of slavery
- Term 2
- Week 1: The work of the slave
- Week 2: The informal economy
- Week 3: Slave family life and death
- Week 4: Slave religion
- Week 5: Slave culture
- Week 7: Slave gender
- Week 8: Race relations: The Elite
- Week 9: Race relations: The Non-Elite
- Week 10: Runaways and Resistance