Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

Online

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.
Develop a critical understanding of, and identify stages in the development of the historiography of US slavery from 1930's through to present day.
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. Legacies and dark tourism 12. Reparations
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:
Students will have to demonstrate a broad knowledge of the history of US slavery and be able to synthesize and critically engage with primary and secondary sources in order to produce an answer to a question set by module leader. For the second assessment students will closely research one WPA interview with a formerly enslaved person to produce a 1000 word blogpost that critically engages with all aspects within that interview. This should include detailed research of who interviewee was enslaved by, who their interviewer was, and should map the location of their enslavement vs interview location as well as their path through the domestic slave trade. Students will have to engage with online genealogy tools and online primary sources.  Students will take formative MCQs at the end of each lecture to test engagement with the subject matter.

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