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Humanities and Social Science

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Workshop

Module Offerings

5126HIST-JAN-MTP

Aims

To enable students to understand the development of ideas of slavery, race, gender in the United States To enable students to understand historiographical interpretations of slavery in the United States and how they have changed over time To enable students to work confidently with a key primary source set

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate and critically apply knowledge of the history of race, gender to the study of slavery in the United States.
2.
Identify stages in the development of the historiography of US slavery in line with developments in US society from the era of Jim Crow segregation through to the Black Lives Matter movement.
3.
Closely research and engage critically with primary sources by the formerly enslaved.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:1. Slavery and Race in the Colonial Era 2. Slavery and Historians 3. Enslaved Female Experiences 4. Slavery and Gender 5. Slave Traders and the Domestic Slave Trade 6. Violence and Slavery 7. Directed Study 8. Slavery, Medicine and Scientific Racism 9. Resistance: Revolt and the Everyday 10. The Civil War and Abolition 11. Slavery on Film
Module Overview:
This module will enable you to understand the development of ideas of slavery, race, gender in the United States. It will also allow you understand historiographical interpretations of slavery in the United States and how they have changed over time.
Additional Information:This module explores how ideas of gender and race developed alongside slavery in the nineteenth-century United States

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