2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Jul 03, 2025

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 306 - Africans in the Americas, 1500-1888

Type of Course: Lecture, Discussion

The European enslavement of Africans in the early modern period was closely connected to the colonization of the New World. Although slavery was their condition, this course presents Africans as more than just bonded workers. The transformations of their identities, ethnicities, religions and gender roles are key to understand the lives of African-Americans. The African experience will be studied in a hemispheric framework that routinely compares structures and events throughout the Americas. The focus will be on African agency, from the African impact on the transatlantic slave trade, via the cultural practices that slaves transferred from their homelands, to African assertiveness in the New World as expressed in protest and marronage.

Cross Listed: HIST 206

Instructor: Mr. Klooster

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Willem Klooster, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of History