Gender, Health, and Resistance: Comparative Slavery in the African Diaspora

3 units

Slavery is a field of historical study that continues to undergo considerable transformation within scholarly investigation. As such, scholars have sought to initiate much broader understandings of the evolution of slavery across both time and geographical space. This course will utilize a comparative approach to examine the experiences of enslavement common throughout the African Diaspora, particularly within the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America. Some themes briefly covered within this course include: gender, sexuality, community, resistance, medicine, labor, and culture.