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Pre-requisites:
Normally H16A & H17C (but may not apply
to non-history majors)
Prof. Verene A. Shepherd
Instruction
Format:
Lectures (2 per week, Mon. &
Tues. 5-6 in IFLT)
+ tutorials (one per week per student)
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Questions for Tutorial Presentation: |
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(Modifications are likely
as the semester progresses, but changes will be announced in
good time. See the detailed booklist for the full references
of supportive readings for each lecture)
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Why do some modern scholars
regard traditional accounts of the history of the Kalinagos
and other indigenous Caribbean peoples as myth? (See P.
C. Emmer, ed., UNESCO General History, Vol. 2 and Section
2 of Shepherd/Beckles, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the
Atlantic World) OR What is the basis of the Chinese challenge
to the Columbus/Portuguese discovery narrative? (See debates
over Gavin Menzies’, 1421)
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What debates have developed
in the accounts of the evolution of Caribbean
economies in the 17th century? (See Sections 111 &
IV of Caribbean Slavery in the
Atlantic World) |
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How have the historical writings
of David Eltis, Joseph Inikori Colin Palmer and Walter
Rodney advanced our understanding of the transatlantic
trade in Africans?
(See F. Knight, ed., UNESCO General History, Vol. 3 and
Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World) |
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What light do the writings
of Stanley Engerman, NAT Hall, Barry Higman
Franklin Knight and Dale Tomich shed on the economics
of Caribbean slavery
in the 18th and 19th centuries? (See section V1 of Caribbean
Slavery in the Atlantic World and Chap. 2 of Knight, ed.,
UNESCO General History, Vol. 3) (2 students) |
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How have Hilary Beckles, Trevor
Burnard, Mary Butler, Digna Castañeda, Lucille
Mathurin Mair and Bernard Moitt illuminated our understanding
of the role of gender
in Caribbean pre-emancipation history? See Beckles, Natural
Rebels and Centering Woman; Kathleen Mary Butler, The
Economics of Emancipation; Sections V1, X & XV1
of Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World and Shepherd,
et. al., eds., Engendering History)
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6. Why have Eric Williams’
and CLR James’ views that the trade in Africans
and profits from Caribbean economies developed Europe
and that there was a relationship between capitalism and
anti-slavery generated such intense controversy? (See
Sections V1, V111 & XV11 of Caribbean Slavery in the
Atlantic World; Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery;
Chaps. 3 & 10 of Knight, ed., UNESCO General History,
Vol. 3)
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7. Why do the issues of colour,
ethnicity and race occupy such a significant part of Caribbean
historiography of the pre-emancipation period? (See UNESCO
General History, Vol. 3, Chaps. 4 & 8 and Sections
1X and X of Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World)
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8. “The Haitian Revolution
both helped and impeded the emancipation movements in
the rest of the Caribbean.” Comment. (See Papers
presented at the Conference on the Haiti-Jamaica Connection,
Latin American Centre, UWI, Mona; Section XV, Caribbean
Slavery in the Atlantic World; Knight, ed., UNESCO General
History, Vol. 3, Chap.10; CLR James, The Black Jacobins)
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Analyse any 6 “slave
testimonies” from the 1831/32 emancipation war in
Jamaica (See Jamaica Journal, Vol. 27: Nos. 2-3 and C.O.
137/185 documents)
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Examine the role of governments
in the emancipation movements in the British and Spanish
Caribbean (See Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery;
UNESCO General History, Vol. 3, chaps. 5, 7, 10 and Sections,
X111, X1V, XV, XV1 and XV11 of Caribbean Slavery in the
Atlantic World) |
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