H575:2452

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

Spring 2022

Prof. Konstantin Dierks
and
William Morgan

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.

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.

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