Graduate students will be encouraged to attend the undergraduate lectues to help them focus their readings, and will be required to write a historiographical essay on a subject of their own choosing. A comparative historical and sociological analysis of the peculiarities and commonalities of the social institutions of slavery in the New World and Africa. The focus of the discussion will be on O. Patterson's work Slavery and Social Death . The course relates the political history of the era to these fundamental socio-economic changes. Readings in, and discussion of, the principal schools of interpretation and conceptual frameworks.
Chronological parameters vary each semester but normally emphasis on the modern period.
Particular attention to issues of empowerment vs, opp ression and continuity vs. change. Arranged Independent supervised readings in history. Permission of history faculty member is required. Basic work in the standard professional archival operations with specific pro jec5s agreed upon between the student, the instructor and the repository. Second course of the Archives sequence.