IMPORTANT NOTES:
Academic Integrity:
Any instances of cheating will be reported to the appropriate Academic Integrity Officer and adjudicated in accordance with College policy. Please review The College of New Jersey’s policy on Academic Integrity, available online at: http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Ebulletin/academicRegulations.html#adademicHonesty. If you have any questions, please speak to me.
Late Assignments:
Late papers will be penalized 1/3 of a grade (e.g. from a B to a B‑, or from an A‑ to a B+) per late day. The weekend, from Friday to Monday, counts as one day. If you miss an exam and do not have a verifiable excuse, you will be assessed an “F”.
Schedule of lectures and discussions:
Note: In order to be prepared for the class, students should complete the assigned reading before the class noted. The Professor reserves the right to add or subtract readings and assignment from the syllabus.
Class Assignments:
Week One: 8/26‑8/29
Class:
Read
Introduction, syllabus, paper, and course goals.
***Patrick Manning, “Why
Africans? The Rise of the Slave Trade to 1700,” Slavery and Africa
Chap. 2.
Week Two: 9/2‑9/5
Class: (TUESDAY CLASS!!!)
Read: Kolchin, Chapter 1
***L. Kaba “Archer, Musketeer, and Mosquitoes: the
Moroccan Invasion of the Sudan and the Songhay Resistance (1591-1612),” JAH
22 (1981), 457-475.
***Olaudah Equiano,
“Kidnapped, Enslaved and Sold Away, c. 1756,” in David Northrup, Middle
Passage [74-80]
Class:
Read:
***Willem Bosman, “Trading
on the Slave Coast, 1700,” in David Northrup, Middle Passage [71-73]
***Malcolm Cowley and
Daniel P. Mannix, “The Middle Passage,” in David Northrup, Middle Passage
[99-112]
Short Writing Assignment Due
Week Three: 9/9‑9/12
Class:
Read:
***Joseph Inikori and
Stanley Engerman, “A Skeptical View of Curtin’s and Lovejoy’s calculations,”
in David Northrup, Middle Passage [65-66]
***Philip Curtin, “From
Guesses to Calculations,” in David Northrup, Middle Passage [39-50]
Begin Reading Eric Williams
Class:
Read:
Week Four: 9/16‑9/19
Class: Kolchin, Chapter 2
Read
***Barbara Bush, “Slave
Women and Resistence,” Slave Women in the Caribbean
Class:
Read:
Week Five: 9/23‑9/26
Class:
Read
***Peter Wood, “Black
Pioneers,” Black Majority [95-130]
Class:
Read:
Week Six: 9/30‑10/3
Class:
Read: Kolchin, Chapter 3
***John Blassingame,
The Slave Community, “The Americanization of the Slave and the
Africanization of the South,” Chap. 2
Class:
Discuss Williams
Paper I Due
Week Seven: 10/7‑10/10
Class:
Read:
***Lawrence Levine, “The
Sacred World of Black Slaves,” Black Culture and Consciousness [3-55]
Begin Reading Jordan
Class:
Read:
***Edmund Morgan, “Slavery
and Freedom: The American Paradox”
Week Eight: 10/14‑10/17
Class:
Read: Kolchin, Chapter 4
***T.H. Breen, “The Free
Blacks of the Eastern Shore,” Mine Own Ground [68-109]
Class:
Read:
Week Nine: 10/21‑10/24
Class: Mid‑Semester Break-No Class
Read:
Class:
Read:
***Stephanie McCurry, “Two
Faces of Republicanism” JAH 78 (1991-92)
Week Ten: 10/28‑10/31
Class:
Read: Kolchin, Chapter 5
Class:
Read:
***David Roediger,
“Irish-American Workers and White Racial Formation in the Antebellum United
States,” The Wages of Whiteness.
Discuss Jordan
Week Eleven: 11/4‑11/7
Class:
Read:
***John Blassingame, “Run
Aways and Rebels,” The Slave Community, Chapter 5.
Begin Reading Silvia Frey and Betty Wood
Class:
Read:
Week Twelve: 11/11‑11/14
Class:
Read: Kolchin, Chapter 6
Class:
Read:
***Confession of Nat
Turner, in Kenneth Greenberg ed. The Confession of Nat Turner. [44-56]
Week Thirteen: 11/18‑11/21
Class:
Read:
***Deborah Gray White,
“Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery,” Ar’n’t I A Woman
[27-61]
Class:
Read:
Week Fourteen: 11/25‑11/28
Class:
Read: Kolchin, Chapter 7
***Deborah Gray White,
“The Nature of Female Slavery,” Ar’n’t I A Woman [62-90]
Discuss Silvia Frey and Betty Wood
Paper II Due
Class: Thanksgiving Break-No Class
Read:
Week Fifteen 12/2‑12/5
Class:
Read:
Class:
Read:
***Matthew Jacobson, “Free
White Persons’ in the Republic, 1790-1840,” Whiteness of a Different Color
[15-39].
Week Sixteen: 12/9
Read: Last Class
Final exam‑TBA