WEEK ONE |
January 12 |
Course Design and Planning |
WEEK TWO |
January 19 |
Berry, Daina Ramey. The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Boston: Beacon Press, 2017.
Dwyer, Erin Austin. Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. |
WEEK FOUR |
February 2 |
Foreman, P. Gabrielle, Casey, Jim, and Patterson, Sarah Lynn, eds.
The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Ball, Erica L. To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Baumgartner, Kabria. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
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WEEK SIX |
February 16 |
Finley, Alexandra J. An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Johnson, Rashauna. Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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WEEK EIGHT |
March 2 |
Berry, Daina Ramey, and Gross, Kali Nicole. A Black Women’s History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.
Ball, Erica L., Seijas, Tatiana, and Snyder, Terri L., eds. As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
WEEK ELEVEN |
April 6 |
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Random House, 2021.
Milteer, Warren Eugene, Jr. Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Roberts, Alaina E. I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. |
WEEK THIRTEEN |
March 23 |
Gilhooley, Simon J. The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Watkins, Jordan T. Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
WEEK FIFTEEN |
April 20 |
Murray, Hannah-Rose. Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Wirzbicki, Peter. Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. |
WEEK SIXTEEN |
April 27 |
Course Conclusion
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