WOMEN AND SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS

V97.0600-001

Professor Krauthamer

This course will examine the history of African and African American women enslaved in the United States and British Caribbean in the 19^th Century.  We will consider issues of labor, reproduction, cultural expression and resistance.  By focusing specifically on women's experiences, we will seek to understand the ways in which chattel slavery treated enslaved women differently from or the same as enslaved men.  We will explore the ways in which enslaved men and women understood marriage, motherhood, friendship and conflict in enslaved communities.