SW 263-HST - Slavery & Freedom in the Colonial Caribbean

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
African slavery was a dominant social and economic institution in the Caribbean Basin from the late fifteenth until the late nineteenth centuries. Over that four hundred year span somewhere between 4.5 and 5 million captive Africans were forced into the region by a number of European empires. For perspective, this is nearly ten times the number of slaves that were brought into the British North American colonies and the United States. This dark chapter of human history continues to reverberate through the region’s nations and diverse cultures. This course offers a survey of slavery’s rise and Fall, with special attention devoted to enslaved peoples’ lives and labors, to encourage students to understand slavery in both broadly regional and empire-specific contexts. (U) Occasionally