HIS 524 Seminar: The Atlantic World

This course examines the political, economic, and social relationships that governed the formation of the modern Atlantic World by exploring the systems of exchange that developed between Africans, Europeans, and the indigenous peoples of North America. Seminar topics will explore: comparative forms of unfree labor between the 15th and 18th centuries; the contributions Native Americans made to the modern American political culture; the relationship between racial ideology and the institution of slavery; democracy and bondage; religious notions of divine providence and colonization; indigenous people and the politics of acculturation; government policy and citizenship; and the fringe communities of pirates, maroons, and fugitives.

Credits

3