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HIUS 2003/AMST1050: Slavery and Freedom at UVA and in Central Virginia—History and Legacies Fall 2019 MW, 2:00-3:15Pm, Nau Hall 211 HIUS 2003/AMST1050: Slavery and Freedom at UVA and in Central Virginia—History and Legacies Fall 2019 MW, 2:00-3:15pm, Nau Hall 211 Professor Kirt von Daacke ([email protected]) Office hours: by appt. (must call 434-924-8986 or visit Monroe 101 to schedule (it is easy, I typically have office hours five days a week.). TA: Ian Iverson ([email protected]) Office Hours: Friday, 10-12, Nau 296 This course examines the history of slavery and its legacy at UVA and in the central Virginia region. The course aims to recover the experiences of enslaved individuals and their roles in building and maintaining the university, and to contextualize those experiences within Southern history. The course is thus an exploration of slave and free black communities, culture and resistance, and an examination of the development of the University of Virginia. We will put the history of slavery in the region into political context, tracing the rise of sectional tensions and secession, the advent of emancipation, the progress of Reconstruction, and the imposition of Jim Crow. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, as we will draw on a wide range of fields, such as art history, architecture, and archaeology. A major focus will be on how we know what we know: on what archives and other repositories of historical sources hold; on how they were constructed; on what they leave out or obscure; and how scholars overcome the gaps, distortions and silences in the historical record. The last weeks of the course will focus on reconciliation and repair. Together, we will connect current initiatives at UVA to represent the history of slavery with initiatives at other universities. And finally, you will work in teams in employing new digital platforms to analyze and interpret aspects of this history in new ways for the public. This year, we will read two books available for purchase at the University Bookstore or elsewhere. They are both required readings: McInnis and Nelson, eds., Educated in Tyranny (UVA Press, 2019); and Harris, Campbell, and Brophy, eds., Slavery and the University, (UGA Press, 2019). All other readings listed weekly can be found in the course UVA Collab Resources section (in the readings folder). Course sChedule Week One Wednesday August 28: IntroduCtion to Course —IMPORTANT: please complete the online “tech survey” in Collab no later Before Friday Week Two Monday Sept. 2: The West AfriCan Slave Trade. Please bring your laptop to class. We will be working through some exercises that will require you to use your computer. https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/maps http://www.slavevoyages.org/resources/images/ http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactiv e_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/about (read up on methodology, variables, etc.) —Readings: Rediker-Slave Ship. Wednesday Sept. 4: The Rise of Slavery in Colonial Virginia —Readings: Walsh-Slave Life. Week Three Monday Sept. 9: Virginia BeComes a Slave Society —Readings: Slavery and the University, ch. 1, pp. 21-45; Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity, pp. 2-19; Race and Racial Identity Are Social Constructs https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/16/how-fluid-is-racial-identity/race-and- racial-identity-are-social-constructs Project Teams will be shared with class on September 10. Sept. 11: Jefferson and Slavery —Readings: Jefferson-Notes on the State of Virginia --Excerpts [14 pp. total]: Query XIV (Laws) excerpt 162-66; Query XVIII (Manners), 178; Taylor, Alan. “The Internal Enemy,”; Horton, “Avoiding History”; Educated in Tyranny, pages 1-25. September 13 (Friday): Teams must Choose a topiC from our list of six approved topiCs or get another approved by us. Week Four Monday Sept. 16: Wednesday Sept. 18: The Enslaved and Daily Life at early UVA —Readings: Reeves-A Community of Households; Educated in Tyranny, chapters 3 and 4. Week Five Sept. 23: Louis Nelson (arChiteCtural history): Slavery & ConstruCtion of the ACademiCal Village —Readings: Bishir-Crafting Lives; and Educated in Tyranny, chapter 1. Sept. 25: Tour #1— Ben Ford (arChaeology): DynamiCs of Slavery at UVA: An ArChaeologiCal PerspeCtive. CLASS MEETS on LAWN, South steps of Rotunda —Readings: Neiman, Fraser D. “The Lost World of Monticello, An Evolutionary Perspective.” Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol 64. No. 2. Summer 2008; Dell Upton, “White and Black Landscapes,” and Educated in Tyranny, chapters 2 and 5. Friday, Sept. 27: RESEARCH PROPOSAL DUE by 4:00PM, turned in by group Collab Captain in assignments seCtion. You’ll cut and paste your material into the text box to submit. Make sure the text starts by fully naming each team member and their team role, and then clearly identifying whiCh topiC they are approaching. Week Six Sept. 30: Liz Varon (history), “Slavery in the Old South” —Readings: Link-Roots of Secession, 29-62. Henry Box Brown-Narrative; Louis Hughes- Thirty Years a Slave 1-25 (up to “The Slave Cabin”); Fountain Hughes-Narrative. OCtober 2: UVA Students and the Culture of Honor —Readings: Slavery and the University, chapters 4 and 6. Week Seven OCt. 7 Reading day, NO CLASS OCt. 9: Grave-robbing, mediCal EduCation, & the Rise of Race SCienCe at UVA. —Readings: Educated in Tyranny, chapter 7; and Daina Ramey Berry, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh, chapter 6; Readings: Barbara J. Fields, “Ideology and Race in American History,” https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/fieldsideolandrace.html; Ta-Nehisi Coates: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/what-we-mean-when-we-say-race-is-a- social-construct/275872/ Week Eight OCt. 14: “Good Blacks and Useful People”: UVA and Free People of Color Readings: Wolfe, Eva Shepard. Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum America. Ch. 1-2 (pp. 1-52); Educated in Tyranny, ch. 8, pp. 199-224; and Slavery and the University, ch. 8, pp. 148-178. OCt. 16: Tour #2—Catherine Foster site Week Nine OCt. 21: Liz Varon, “The Slavery Debates and SeCession at UVA” Readings: McKim, Randolph. A Soldiers Recollections: Leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South. (1999) pp. 1- 10; Holcombe and Baldwin speeches, in William Freehling, ed. Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union, pp. 62-88; Link, William A. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. (2005) Ch. 7 pp. 213-244. OCt. 23: UVA, Albemarle County, Pro-Slavery Thought, and the Confederacy —Readings: Slavery and the University, ch. 3, p. 65-83; Educated in Tyranny, ch. 6, pp. 141- 170. OCT. 25: PROJECT OUTLINE DUE BY 4:00PM, turned in by group Collab Captain in assignments seCtion. You’ll cut and paste your material into the text box to submit. Make sure the text starts by fully naming each team member and their team role, and then Clearly identifying whiCh topiC they are approaching. Week Ten OCt. 28: Tour #3: UVA Cemeteries… OCt. 30: Liz Varon, “Black Virginians in Blue” —Readings: Black Virginians in Blue (read all essays at the linked web page) Week Eleven Nov. 4: Ian Iverson, “Change in Virginia 1860-1870…” —Readings: Richard Lowe, “Local Black Leaders during Reconstruction in Virginia” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Apr. 1995), pp. 181-206; Foner-Forever Free. Nov. 6: Workshop: Team ProjeCt Work in Class Week Twelve November 11: UVA, Restorative JustiCe, and the process of ACknowledgement & Atonement —Readings: read UVA Slavery Commission Report (skip history, look at everything else) and Brown Report. Nov. 13: Workshop: Team ProjeCt Work in Class Week Thirteen Nov. 18: National LandsCape of Universities Studying Slavery —Readings: Lecture will be a discussion about how Universities have been and are proceeding in studying slavery. Closely examine the universities whose names are hotlinked (56 schools right now, not all have a website or program) at https://slavery.virginia.edu/universities- studying-slavery/ Nov. 20: Reparations Workshop —Readings: Coates-The Case for Reparations; ICTJ-Global-Reparations-Practice; Kelley-A Day of Reckoning. Week Fourteen Nov. 25: NO CLASS, but you must have completed a University Guides-run UVA history tour BEFORE the Thanksgiving Break. Final WEBSITE ProjeCt must go live by November 25. Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Break Week Fifteen DeC. 2—GROUP PRESENTATIONS DeC. 4: GROUP PRESENTATIONS (Team evaluations should be typed up, printed out, and delivered to Monroe 101 on DeCember 4) Course PoliCies: • Attendance is required. Full credit requires 2 or fewer absences. 3 absences = letter grade deduction; 4 absences=2 letter-grade deduction. Daily sign-in will be on your honor. • Project assignments are to be completed on-time. Those submitted late will lose 10% of possible points for every 24 hours or portion thereof that assignment is late. No exceptions here—due dates are on syllabus from day one of class and you may complete project assignments early, so plan accordingly. Course Assignments: • First week Collab Tech Survey (must be completed in first two days of course) Website ProjeCt Each group of 6 students will create an online research-based project that employs a story map, heat map, or timeline (utilizing one of several specific platforms); or creates documentary shorts (10-15 minutes total) about the local history of slavery. These team project will be based in Digication (the class will have a training session on this product). Each group’s digital project, built in Digication, and including mapping/timelines/videos, posted with their digital project, will analyze a particular problem (from the provided list), using digital humanities technology to do so. Advance deadlines have been set for team topic choice, proposal with bibliography, project outlines/storyboards, the research-based digital project, and the documentary, as well as a chance to revise one of the projects.
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