- August 27th: Introduction
- September 10th: The problem: slavery and unfree labor
- American Historical Review Forum "Crossing Slavery's Boundaries" (April 2000), 451-84, which includes:
- David Brion Davis, "Looking at Slavery from Broader Perspectives"
- Peter Kolchin, "The Big Picture: A Comment on David Brion Davis's..."
- Rebecca Scott, "Small-Scale Dynamics of Large-Scale Processes"
- Stanley Engerman, "Slavery at Different Times and Places"
- Robin Blackburn, "Slave Exploitation and the Elementary Structures of Enslavement," in M.L. Bush, ed., Serfdom and Slavery, 158-180
- David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, 29-61
- **First paper due in class today. Each of the historians we read this week identify and discuss several key questions in the history of Western slavery. What are the central theoretical and methodological questions raised in these six pieces? Please do not analyze the articles one by one; instead, organize your paper thematically. Your paper should be no more than five (5) typed, double-spaced pages; anything longer will be returned unread for revision.**
I. LEGACIES OF ANTIQUITY
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- September 17th: Rome
- Keith Bradley, Slavery and Society at Rome
- September 24th: Roman and other legacies
- Davis, The Problem of Slavery, 62-90
- Peter Garnsey, Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
- October 1st: Slavery and unfree labor in the medieval West
- Marc Bloch, Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages, 1-91
- Pierre Bonnassie, From Slavery to Feudalism in South-Western Europe, 1-60,
288-313, 314-40
- William D. Phillips, Jr., Slavery From Roman Times to the Early Transatlantic Trade, 43-87
- ***Paper due in class today***
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II. PRECEDENTS TO THE ATLANTIC SLAVE SYSTEM
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- October 8th: The Mediterranean
- Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery, 31-93
- Steven A. Epstein, Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity and Human Bondage in Italy
- October 15th: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic I: Portugal and Spain
- Debra Blumenthal, "Demendas de libertat: Slave claims-making in late medieval Spain" (typescript)
- Ruth Pike, Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century, 170-192
- A.C. de C.M. Saunders, A social history of black slaves and freedmen in Portugal, 1441-1555
- October 22nd: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic II: The Atlantic Islands
- Blackburn, Making, 95-126
- Lobo Cabrera, "Slavery and Sugar in the Canary Islands," in Vieira, ed., Slaves With or Without Sugar, 109-24
- Philip D. Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex, 3-28
- William B. Phillips, Jr. "The Old World Background of Slavery in the Americas," in Barbara Solow, ed., Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System, 43-61
- Charles Verlinden, "The Transfer of Colonial Techniques from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic," in The Beginnings of Modern Colonization, 3-32
- Alberto Vieira, "Sugar Islands: The Sugar Economy of Madeira and the Canaries, 1450-1650," forthcoming in Stuart B. Schwartz, ed., Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World before the 'Sugar Revolution'
- October 29th: Race and racism: Europeans' perceptions of Africans
- Robert Bartlett, "Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity" in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31 (2001), 39-56
- Benjamin Braude, "The Sons of Noah and the Construction of Ethnic and Geographical Identities in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 54 (1997), 103-42
- David Eltis, "Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation," American Historical Review 98 (1993), 1399-1423
- James H. Sweet, "The Iberian Roots of American Racist Thought," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 54 (1997), 143-66
- Alden T. Vaughan, "The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," in Palmer, ed. The Worlds of Unfree Labor, 25-68
- Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan, "Before Othello: Elizabethan Representations of Sub-Saharan Africans," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 54 (1997), 19-44
- ***Paper due in class today***
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III. THE MAKING OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE SYSTEM
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- November 5th: The early Atlantic: Africa and the New World
- John Thornton, Africa and the Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World
- November 12th: The early Atlantic: Africa and the New World II
- James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
- Note: Professor Sweet will join our discussion this week.
- November 19th: The early Atlantic: the Caribbean and Spanish America
- Blackburn, Making, 127-60
- Alejandro de la Fuente, "Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba: The Tannenbaum Debate Revisited," forthcoming in Law and History Review, May 2004
(http://www.pressuillinois.edu/journals/lhr.html: go to "forthcoming articles" and scroll down until you find the title)
- Genaro Rodrâguez Morel, "The Sugar Economy of Hispaniola in the Sixteenth Century." forthcoming in Stuart B. Schwartz, ed., Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World before the 'Sugar Revolution'
- Phillips, Slavery, 195-217
- Charles Verlinden, "Medieval Slavery in Europe and Colonial Slavery in America," in The Beginnings of Modern Colonization, 33-51
- Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System I, 86-102
- December 3rd: The early Atlantic: Brazil
- Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
- **Final paper due Monday, December 8th at noon**
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