H575:

Graduate Readings in History:
Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Freedom I

Fall 2021

Prof. Konstantin Dierks
and
William Morgan

WEEK ZERO
August 20

Course Design and Planning

WEEK TWO
September 1

Vidal, Cecile.  Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

White, Sophie.  Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

WEEK FOUR
September 15

Johnson, Jessica Marie.  Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World..  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Nunley, Tamika Y.  At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

WEEK SIX
September 29

Baumgartner, Alice L.  South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.  New York: Basic Books, 2020.

Bell, Karen Cook.  Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

WEEK EIGHT
October 13

Rothman, Joshua D.  The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America.  New York: Basic Books, 2021.

Wells, Jonathan Daniel.  The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War.  New York: Bold Type Books, 2020.

WEEK TEN
October 27

Brown, Vincent.  Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019.

McDaniel, W. Caleb.  Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

WEEK TWELVE
November 10

Morgan, Jennifer L.  Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Rosenthal, Caitlin.  Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.

WEEK FOURTEEN
December 1

Gosse, Van.  The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Jackson, Kellie Carter.  Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Masur, Kate.  Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction.  New York: W.W. Norton, 2021.

WEEK SIXTEEN
December 15

Course Conclusion