Jr. Slaves, Sugar, and Colonial Society. Biography of a Runaway Slave . Our Rightful Share. Women and Revolution in Nicaragua . Roger N. Lancaster.
Life is Hard .
The books listed above, all of which you must read, should be available for purchase at Ruminator TextBooks. I have desk copies of some of them, which I am willing to let you borrow and use as your own, provided you return them at the end of the semester, so that other students can take advantage of this arrangement in the future. A more accessible and continuous guide to the history of these countries, then, will be a general article out of an encyclopedia or other reference work. I am asking that, at the beginning of each section of the course, you read one such piece that will ground you on the country will be studying for the next 2-3 weeks. I have tried to spread the work evenly and rationally throughout the semester, but you may find yourself overburdened by the reading sometimes and quite relaxed at others.