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HISTORY 75900 AND FREEDOM: AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Fall 2017 Instructor: Gunja SenGupta Room 4419, 4:15-6:15 GC Office: 5104; Hours: Mondays: 3-4, and by appointment Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Telephone: 7189515303

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course introduces students to the history and historiography of slavery and emancipation in what became the United States, within transoceanic and comparative frames of reference. The blood and toil of human chattel helped knit North America with the Indian Ocean World into international networks of trade and travel, and conquest and colonization, of politics and ideology, and culture and community. It was within and across these networks, that the historical actors and groups that populate this course circulated, lived, loved, worked, negotiated, and rebelled. We will use the scholarship, archives, and images that they inspired, to connect and compare the ways in which slavery was codified, experienced, imagined, narrated, and contested in the United States, with slavery histories from the western Indian Ocean. Our comparative and transoceanic perspectives will invite reflection on the following questions: how exceptional was “American” slavery, and its relationship with notions of freedom? How do we theorize “agency,” “diaspora,” and “difference,” in African American history, and evaluate scholarly debates over the boundaries between law and practice, family and the market, and nation and empire within that history? In what ways did migration remake identities and produce change? We will grapple with these larger questions by placing U.S. historiography in dialogue with scholarship on the Indian Ocean, comparing, for instance, the with on the Trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean routes; considering the ways in which tropes of difference (race, religion, class, gender, sex) and ideas about dependence (especially kinship) shaped ideologies and practices of “master-slave” relationships; discussing the workings of the state, law, political economy, religious institutions, and demography, in constructing slavery, influencing the enslaved’s material conditions, and regulating their access to community membership/citizenship; examining the dynamics of African American family, culture, community, and resistance through the prism of “subaltern” historiography; tracing the transoceanic circulation of debates over slavery and poverty, and abolition and empire; and contextualizing emancipation in the U.S, within the framework of comparative histories of freedom.

1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Students will: 1) compare and contrast U.S. slavery histories and historiographies with scholarship on the Indian Ocean. 2) develop a critical understanding of the ways in which context influences concepts central to African American history (“agency,” “difference,” “diaspora,” “freedom,” etc); 3) reflect on the relationship of the past with memory, identity, and representation in literature, popular culture, and sites of public commemoration (like museums); 4) analyze and synthesize scholarly works; 5) frame research questions, and build arguments from a spectrum of primary and secondary sources.

CLASS FORMAT:

Each class will consist of seminar-style discussions and debate over the assigned readings. We will read and interpret scholarly pieces, in juxtaposition with a variety of other sources on the same themes. Such sources may include archival documents and audiovisual materials that prompt us to think critically about the ways in which historians use primary sources. Students will take turns introducing and leading class discussions on selected readings assigned for each period. Details of these requirements follow.

COURSE MATERIALS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

1) Required readings: E-book links and pdf copies of articles, book chapters, primary documents, and images will be posted on Blackboard [hereafter BB, and available through https://cunyportal.cuny.edu/]. These materials are listed in the schedule of readings below. 2) Film clips/podcasts/images: will be supplied by instructor in class, as per schedule. 3) References: The required readings for each week are followed by supplementary bibliographies, listing works which you are NOT expected to read for class discussion purposes. These materials – not posted on BB -- are designed to give you overviews of the topics under discussion, help you with more specialized research in areas that interest you, and on occasion, to help you place the required readings in historiographical context.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Attendance and class participation: You are required to attend class regularly, complete reading assignments carefully and according to schedule, and participate in class discussions. All absences MUST be excused.

Leading discussions in rotation: Students will take turns leading discussions on selected readings during each class period. Each student will lead discussions of THREE required readings (essays or book chapters) in the course of the semester, selecting one from each of three Groups of readings– A,B, and C, listed on a sign-up sheet distributed in class and posted on BB. The lead discussant of each reading must introduce the piece and pose questions for class discussion that address the main ideas, arguments, supporting evidence, historiographical context (where appropriate), and connections with other readings assigned for that class period.

2 Three short review essays: Submit three short analytical review essays, each approximately 2-3 pages long, (typed, double-spaced). Each essay must review a secondary source (article or book chapter/s) assigned for class, one or all of which may be pieces on which you lead a discussion. Each essay must offer a critical analysis of the central themes, and supporting arguments and evidence of the piece under review, place the piece in historiographical context, and connect, compare, or contrast it with other readings assigned for that class period. These assignments are due on October 16, November 13, and December 11. You may submit these essays either in hard copy or digitally via SafeAssign on Blackboard.

Research paper or historiographical essay: You are required to submit a 10 page research paper (typed, double-spaced) or historiographical essay on any topic related to the themes of this course that interests you. If you choose to write a research paper, you must identify and draw on primary sources, in addition to secondary works. All papers must be accompanied by notes and a bibliography, citing all sources of information used in the paper. Details will be supplied in class. The paper is due no later than 5 pm, on December 23, 2017 via SafeAssign, on BB.

GRADING:

Your course grade will be computed according to the following percentages: Attendance and general class participation: 15%; leading discussions: 30%; review essays : 30% (10% each); research Paper: 25%;

COURSE PLAN AND SCHEDULE OF READINGS

Week 1 (Aug 28) Topic: Introductions; Why study African American history within transnational and comparative frames of reference?

Overviews for your reference (optional, not posted on BB): On African American historians, see Robin D. G. Kelley, “ ‘But a Local Phase of a World Problem’: Black History’s Global Vision, 1883-1950,” Journal of American History 86 (December 1999), 1045-1077 For overviews, see Robin Blackburn, The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (London: Verso, 2011, repr. 2013); Sugata Bose, A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.); Gwyn Campbell, Suzzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller eds., Women and Slavery: Africa, The Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007); Gywn Campbell and Edward A. Alpers, “Introduction: Slavery, Forced Labor and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia,” Slavery and Abolition 25(August 2004), ix-xxvii; David Brion Davis, : The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (New : Oxford University Press, 2007), and “The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery,” in Richard A. Posner and David Brion Davis, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009); Robert 3 W. Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York, Norton, 1989); Joseph E. Harris, The African Presence in Asia (Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press,1977); Isabel Hofmeyr, “Universalizing the Indian Ocean,” PMLA 125 (May 2010), 721-729;Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982).

Week 2 (Sept 11) Topics: 1) Historiography, Contexts, and Concepts 2) Memory and Diasporic Consciousness Readings: PDF/E-Book Links on BB: 1) Suzanne Miers, “Slavery: A Question of Definition,” in Gwyn Campbell ed., The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2004) 1-2, and Campbell, “Introduction,” in Ibid., vii-xxxi 2) Stephanie M. H. Camp and Edward E. Baptist, “Introduction,” in Baptist and Camp eds., New Studies in the History of American Slavery (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), 1-18. 3) John Samuel Harpham, “ ‘Tumult and Silence’ in the Study of the American Slave Revolts,” Slavery and Abolition 36 (2015), 257-274 OR Norman R. Yetman, “Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery,” American Quarterly 36 (Summer 1984), 181-210. 4) Robert Harms, “Introduction,” in Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David W. Blight eds., Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), 1-19. 5) Joseph C. Miller, “Problematizing Slavery in the Americas as History,” in The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 119-162. 6) John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 1-9, 72-97. 7) Colin Palmer, “Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora,” Perspectives on History (September 1998)(https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/sep tember-1998/defining-and-studying-the-modern-african-diaspora). 8) Pier M. Larson, “Reconsidering Trauma, Identity, and the African Diaspora: Enslavement and Historical Memory in Nineteenth-Century Highland ,” The William and Mary Quarterly 56 (April 1999), 335-362 OR Gwyn Campbell, “The African-Asian Diaspora: Myth or Reality?” African and Asian Studies 5(2006), 305-324.

4 9) Awam Amkpa and Gunja SenGupta, “Picturing Homes and Border Crossings: The Slavery Trope in Films of the Black Atlantic,” Ana Lucia Araujo ed., Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2011), 359-387.

Film Clips: Daughters of the Dust; Rue cases nègres

References C.A. Bayly, Sven Beckert, Matthew Connelly, Isabel Hofmeyr, Wendy Kozol, and Patricia Seed, “AHR Conversation: On Transnational History,” American Historical Review 111 (December 2006): 1440-1464; essays by Nancy F. Cott, Stephen Tuck, Jean Allman, and Matthew Pratt Guterl in “AHR Forum: Transnational Lives in the Twentieth-Century,” American Historical Review 118 (February 2013): 45-139; Vincent Brown, “Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery,” American Historical Review 114 (December 2009): 1231-1249; Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton eds., Slavery and South Asian History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006); Peter Coclanis, “Atlantic World or Atlantic/World?” William and Mary Quarterly 63(October 2006), 727-28; Alison Games, “Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities,” American Historical Review 111(June 2006), 741-757; Jeff Forret and Christine E. Sears, New Directions in Slavery Studies: Commodification, Community, Comparison (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 20155): Joseph E. Harris, “Expanding the Scope of African Diaspora Studies: The Middle East and India, a Research Agenda,” Radical History Review 87 (Fall 2003): 157-68; Patrick Manning, “Africa and the African Diaspora: New Directions of Study,” Journal of African History 44 (2003):487-506; Utsa Patnaik and Manjari Dingwaney eds., Chains of Servitude: Bondage and (Hyderabad: Sangam Books, 1985); Gyan Prakash, Bonded Histories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Deryck Scarr, Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998); James Sidbury, “Globalization, Creolization, and the Not-So-Peculiar Institution,” Journal of Southern History 73(August 2007), 618; Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York: Basic Books, 1994); James L. Watson ed., Asian and African Systems of Slavery (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980).

Week 3 (Sept 18)

Topics: 1) The Atlantic Slave Trade: Debates over “Human Commodification,” Public Commemoration, and the “Blame Game.”

Readings: E-book link/PDF on BB: 1) John W. Sweet, “The Subject of the Slave Trade: Recent Currents in the Histories of the Atlantic, Great Britain, and Western Africa,” Early American Studies 7 (Spring 2009), 1-45 2) Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1850 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014), 8-24 3) Bayo Holsey, Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in (: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 27-47, and 151-174 5 OR Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), “Introduction,” 1-8, 33-64, 122-152 4) Nicholas Trinehart, “The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery,” Journal of 50 (Fall 2016): 28-50 5) Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Ending the Blame Game,” New York Times Op-Ed, April 23, 2010; Letters to the Editor on Africa’s Role in the Slave Trade, New York Times, April 26, 2010.

Film: Scenes from Wonders of the African World: The Slave Kingdoms (1999)

References Vincent Brown, The Reaper’s Garden; Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008); David Eitis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Kîein,eds. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); and online at http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces; Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (New York, 2009); Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Bernard Moitt ed., Sugar, Slavery and Society: Perspectives on the Caribbean, India, the Mascarenes, and the United States (Gainesville, Fl: University of Press, 2004); Jeanette Pinto, Slavery in , 1510-1842 (Bombay: Himalaya Publishing, 1992).

Week 4 (September 25) Topic: 1) Emergence of Slave Societies: Diaspora and Difference in the United States

Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB) : 1) Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (New York: Norton, 1975), 108-116, 215-220, 235-36, 295-300, 308-311,327-328, 330-341, 344-345. 2) Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 12-49. 3) Plus ANY TWO of the following: Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998), 142-176. Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), “Introduction,” and chapter 4. Craig S. Wilder, Ebony and Ivory: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), chapters 2 & 3

6 4) “272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does it Owe Their Descendants?” New York Times, April 17, 2016

References Essays by S. Max Edelson, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Walter Hawthorne, David Eltis, Philip Morgan, and David Richardson in “AHR Exchange: The Question of Black Rice,” American Historical Review 115 (February 2010), 123-171; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race,” Signs 17 (Winter 1992): 251-75; Alden T. Vaughan, “The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century, in of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 136-174;

Week 5 (October 2) Topic: Reverberations: Revolution, Nation, and Empire Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB): 1) Kirsten Sword, “Remembering Dinah Nevil: Strategic Deceptions in Eighteenth-Century Antislavery,” Journal of American History (September 2010), 315-342 OR John Davies, “Taking Liberties: Saint Dominguan Slaves and the Formation of Community in Philadelphia, 1791-1805,” in Forret and Sears eds., New Directions in Slavery Studies, 93-110. 2) Mia Bay, “In Search of Sally Hemings in the Post-DNA Era,” Reviews in American History 34(December 2006), 407-426 3) Tiya Miles, Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005), Chapters 1-3. 4) Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), chapters 2 &3. 5) Edward Alpers, “On Becoming a British Lake: Piracy, Slaving, and British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean in the First Half of the Nineteenth-Century,” in Harms et al., eds., Indian Ocean Slavery, 45-60. 6) Documents from British colonial records on the suppression of the African slave trade in India

References Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006) Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus, Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic (Athens, University of Georgia Press, 2015); David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966), and The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975). 7

Weeks 6 ,7, 8 (Oct 16, 23, 30) Topics: 1) “Mammy,” Magnolias and Mint Juleps: Old South Fantasies amid “War Capitalism” 2) Transoceanic debates over slavery as “poor law” Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB):

October 16 1) Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Vintage Books, 1972, repr., 1974), 3-49. 2) Excerpts from George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society (Richmond, VA: A. Morris Publisher, 1854), 226-58, electronic edition, “Documenting the American South,” or “DocSouth,” a digital publishing project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (http://docsouth.unc.edu) 3) Stanley M. Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959, repr.,1976), Chapter III: “Slavery and Personality.”

FIRST REVIEW ESSAY DUE

October 23 1) Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the South (New York: Norton, 1985), 1-61 2) Excerpts from Reports of the India Law Commission Upon Slavery in India, January 15, 1841, Volume I. 3) Gwyn Campbell, “The Changing Face of Labor in the Indian Ocean World, c., 1800-1900,” in Harms et al. eds., Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition, 23-44

Film: Scenes from Gone With the Wind (1939).

(October 30) 1) Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Vintage Books, 2014), 98-135 2) Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 19-44 3) Frederick Cooper, Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 23-79. 4) Documents on Mississippi overseers and free labor experiments in India

Reference: Henry Charles Carey, “How Slavery Grows in India,” in The Slave Trade: Why it Exists and How it May be Extinguished (Philadelphia: Hart, Carey, and Hart, 1853), 130-173. (Carey became Lincoln’s economic advisor).

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Weeks 9 & 10 (November 6, 13)

Topics: 1)“From Sundown to Sunup”: Enslaved Communities, Culture, “Creolization.” 2) Resistance and the Problem of Agency Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB)

November 6 1) Walter Johnson, “On Agency,” Journal of Social History (Fall 2003), 113-124 2) John W. Blassingame, : Plantation Life in the (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), Chapters 2 & 5 3) Lawrence W. Levine, “The Slaves World-View Revealed in Their Stories,” excerpted from Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), in Thomas C. Holt and Elsa Barkley Brown eds., Major Problems in African American History, Volume I: From Slavery to Freedom, 1619-1877 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 277-293. 4) Shane White and Graham White, “Slave Hair and African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Centuries,” Journal of Southern History 61(February 1995), 45-76. 5) Blassingame, “The Slave Family,” in The Slave Community, 149-191 OR Herbert G. Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 (New York: Random House, 1976), xvii-xxv, 3-44 6) Michael Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 1-16, 59-87.

November 13 1) Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African American in the American South and the British Caribbean to 1830 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), Chapters 1&5. 2) Marcus Rediker, “The African Origins of the Amistad Rebellion, 1839,” International Review of Social History 58 (December 2013): 15-34. 3) Wilma King, “ ‘Mad’ Enough to Kill: Enslaved Women, Murder, and Southern Courts,” Journal of African American History 92 (Winter 2007): 37-56. 4) Diana Williams, “Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance?,” in Mary E. Frederickson, Darlene Clarke Hine and Delores Walters eds., Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013), 115-131.

9 5) Helene Basu, “Music and the Formation of Sidi Identity in Western India,” History Workshop Journal 65(Spring 2008): 161-178.

SECOND REVIEW ESSAY DUE

Film: Scenes from Amistad (1997); Scenes from (1998)

References: Clare Anderson, “Convicts and : Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century,” Slavery and Abolition 30(March 2009):93-109; W. Jeffrey Bolster, Back Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997): Thomas C. Buchanan, Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Janet J. Ewald, “Bondsmen, Freedmen, and Maritime Industrial Transportation, c. 1840-1900,” Slavery and Abolition 31 (September 2010), 451-466; Sylvia R. Frey, “The Visible Church: Historiography of African American Religion Since Raboteau,” Slavery and Abolition 29 (March 2008):83-110; Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2005); Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey (New York: Penguin Books, 2012); James Sidbury, Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997); Brenda Stevenson, “The Question of the Slave Female Community and Culture in the American South: Methodological and Ideological Approaches,” Journal of African American History 92(Winter 2007): 74-95.

Week 11 (Nov 20) Topic: How Space, Mobility, and Migration Made Meaning in Local and Imperial Contexts Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB): 1) Stephanie M. H. Camp, “The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Plantation South, 1830-1861,” in Camp and Baptist eds., New Studies in the History of American Slavery, 87-124 2) Van Gosse, " ‘As a Nation, the English Are Our Friends’: The Emergence of African American Politics in the British Atlantic World, 1772-1861,” American Historical Review 113 (October 2008): 1003-1028 3) Documents by and on emigration advocate, Mary Ann Shadd Cary 4) William and Ellen Craft, “Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, Or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery,” (1860), in Sterling LeCarter Bland, African American Slave Narratives: Anthology, Vol. 3 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001), 891-946. 5) Lindsay Doulton, “ ‘The Flag That Sets Us Free’: Antislavery, Africans, and the Royal Navy in the Western Indian Ocean,” in Harms et al., Indian Ocean Slavery, 101-119. 10

References Edward Alpers, “Flight to Freedom: Escape from Slavery Among Bonded Africans in the Indian Ocean World, 1750-1962,” Slavery and Abolition 24 (August 2003), 51-68; Brian Russell Roberts, “Abolitionist Archipelago: Pre-and Post-Emancipation Islands of Slavery and Emancipation,” Atlantic Studies 8 (June 2011) 233-252; Edlie L. Wong, Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York: New York University Press, 2009).

Week 12 (Nov 27) Topics: 1) Gender, Power, and Work within Slaveholding Households: A) Plantation Households in the American South. B) Courtesans, Concubines, Eunuchs in the Indian Ocean 2) Family, Politics, and the Market. Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB): 1) Letter by Louisa S. McCord to an abolitionist Englishwoman, the Duchess of Sutherland, and published in the newspaper, the Charleston Mercury, 1853. 2) Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), Chapter 2. 3) Excerpts from Memoirs of an Arabian Princess by Emily Ruete (Salamah bint Saïd; Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman) (1844-1924), Translated by Lionel Strachey. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907 (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ruete/arabian/arabian.html) 4) Documents on “slaveholding” sex workers in 19th century South Asia from the British colonial archives. 5) Kendra Field, “The Violence of Family Formation: Enslaved Families and Reproductive labor in the Marketplace,” Reviews in American History 42 (2014): 255-264. 6) Dylan C. Penningroth, “The Claims of Slaves and Ex-Slaves to Family and Property: A Transatlantic Comparison,” American Historical Review 112(October 2007), 1039-1069. 7) Richard Eaton, “The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650,” in Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton eds., Slavery and South Asian History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 115-135.

Week 13&14 (December 4, 11) Topics: 1) Abolition and Emancipation 2) U.S. Connections with Indian Ocean Slavery After the Civil War Readings (E-book link/PDF on BB): December 4 1) Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause, Chapter 7 2) Harriet Beecher Stowe, ’s Cabin (1852), Selections. 3) Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010), “Prologue” and Chapter 6

11 4) Barnard K. Freamon, “Straight, No Chaser: Slavery, Abolition, and Modern Islamic Thought,” in Harms et al. eds., Indian Ocean Slavery, 61 -80.

Film: Scene from 12 Years a Slave (2013)

December 11 1. Tera Hunter, “Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom,” in To 'Joy my Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997), 21-43. 2. Howard Temperley, “The Delegalization of Slavery in British India,” in Temperley ed., After Slavery: Emancipation and its Discontents (London: Routledge, 2000), 169-187 OR Elisabeth McMahon, “Networked Family: Defining Kinship in Emancipated Slave Wills on Pemba Island,” Journal of Social History 46(Summer 2013): 916-930. 3. Matthew Hopper, “Slaves of One Master: Globalization and the African Diaspora in Arabia in the Age of Empire,” in Harms et al., eds., Indian Ocean Slavery, 223-240. 4. Documents on American slaveholders and African fugitives in the Indian Ocean

THIRD REVIEW ESSAY DUE

References Richard B Allen, “Slaves, Convicts, Abolitionism and the Global Origins of the Post-Emancipation Indentured Labor System,” Slavery and Abolition 35 (June 2014), 328-348; Ira Berlin, et al., eds., The Destruction of Slavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985); Gwyn Campbell ed., Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean African and Asia (London: Routledge, 2005); Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt and Rebecca J. Scott, Beyond Slavery: Explorations of race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Seymour Drescher, From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (New York: New York University Press, 1998); Stanley L. Engerman, Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007); Eric Foner, Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983); Andrea Major, Slavery, Abolitionism, and Empire in India (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012) Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Freedom’s Seekers: Essays in Comparative Emancipation (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014); Martin A. Klein, ed., Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern South Africa and Asia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993); Barbara Krauthamer, Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013); Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South India (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge U. Press, 1965) Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Emanciption (New York: Knopf, 1979); Pamela Scully and Diana Paton eds., Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).

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