Seminar Programme

Some of the weekly readings are available as Library Course Extracts.

 CONTENT WARNING: On this course, we will discuss difficult topics throughout. These include racism and violence (including sexual violence). Every attempt is made to do so in a sensitive and respectful way, but the subject-matter is often painful.

Term 1
Week	Seminar Topic
2	Introduction: Enslaved Lives in Brazil, Cuba, and the Atlantic World
3	Groundings (1): Studying Slavery Transnationally, from Above and from Below
4	Groundings (2): Spaces of Slavery, Places of Freedom?
5	From Numbers to Life Histories: Approaches to the Transatlantic Trade
6	Reading week - no class
7	Abolition Efforts or a new Enslavement? Britain and Slave Trade Abolition
8	Slave Trade Abolition in Brazil
9	Cultures and Societies in the Diaspora
10	The Yoruba Diaspora: Africa, Brazil, and Cuba
Term 2 1	West Central Africans in the Diaspora
2	Gender and Slavery from Africa to the Americas
3	Gender and Manumission in “Iberian” Slave Societies
4	Rebellions and "Resistance" in Brazil, Cuba, and the Atlantic World
5	Slavery and freedom: a spatial approach
6	Reading week - no class
7	Environmental histories of slavery and freedom
8	Brazil and Cuba: two slave societies of the nineteenth century
9	Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
10	Abolition of Slavery in Cuba
Term 3 1	Essay Surgery